Most people love the taste of sugar. And now it s gaining popularity as a raw material for biofuel.
We work long and hard to help farmers make a success of their sugarcane crop. The world s demands are high: the food industry relies hugely on sugarcane to make the products people love. It s not just for sweets. Sugar is also in less obvious products like tomato ketchup and pickles. Each of us eats around 23 three-gram sugar lumps every day that s just under 25 kilograms each year. Approximately 80 per cent of this sugar comes from sugarcane.
There s also a new and growing reason the world turns to farmers for sugarcane: biofuel. Through fermentation, sugar can be turned into bioethanol a rising star in the low-carbon economy.
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