D 1.3. What is the expectation for new technologies over the next few years, with major impacts on costs and quality?
In addition to sharing technologies which are already commercial, innovation in processes for ethanol production and product diversification (based on sucrose and sugarcane lignocellulosic waste) should happen. In 2000 the estimate was that the additional implementation of already commercial technologies could result in cost reductions of up to 13% in production in the Center-South. New processes include precision agriculture; integrated sugarcane transportation and harvesting systems; much higher industrial automation; new separation processes (juice and final processing). Genetic modification of sugarcane is developing fast in Brazil (on an experimental scale, including field tests); the sugarcane genome was mapped in 2001 in So Paulo and dozens of projects (applications: functional genome) have been in progress in public and private institutions. Product diversification has been sought, including sucrose-based products (in new companies, within the mills, or not) and ethanol chemist
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