I've researched quite a lot about ethanol fuel, and it still mesmerizes me that Brazil is basically the only country that uses pure ethanol as a vehicle fuel. It's much cleaner, runs just as well as gasoline (makes a little less mileage, but it's cheaper), and we've had the technology for over 25 years. A lot of research criticizes ethanol use as it being harmful to engine components (especially ruber and polymer components such as gaskets), but in Brazil almost every vehicle is fuel-flex (meaning it can run with any gasoline/alcohol blend, even 100% alcohol), and we have literally millions of vehicles with over 100k miles that have never seen a drop of gasoline and run like a charm.
I’m the same way. I personally believe it’s due to various forms of lack of incentive: dozens of excuses (e.g. ethanol is no good in cold weather; not true since new flex engines created in 2006 and onwards), the size and sheer power of the petroleum industry, governments (and people overall) that are not well informed, etc. I mean, even for Brazil it took reaching a very dire situation (the extremely high gasoline prices in the 70s) to make the government consider the possibility of using an alternative fuel.
@@paulotaviorod I completely agree. In my opinion, it’s mostly due to lack of incentive and information, and I would even go as far as to say that oil companies actively promote the idea that ethanol fuel is not as good as gasoline, considering how much misinformation there is in the public (especially in the US). Newer flex-fuel engines can run just as well on ethanol as they can on gasoline, and due to advances in heated fuel injection they have no problem with cold weather as well. As far as I’ve read, it’s also cleaner to push for hybrid vehicles running on ethanol than to push for full electrification (especially in the US, where only 20% of the energy produced comes from renewable sources). Anyway, it’s a complex topic and I really hope to see advances in this field worldwide in the next decade
If you go to forums from brands like ducati they say that any percentage above 5% of ethanol in the fuel will ruin completely the engine and dissolve the tank, but that same bike runs absolutely fine with 30% of ethanol in the gasoline and the tank don't deform even in bikes with more than 20 years of use.
Yeah, here in Brazil we don't even have 100% gasoline, because it's mixed 35% ethanol in the gasoline. Our cars goes more than 2 decades without 100% gasoline here, and there's no big problem with them. Yeah, there are some changes in the components to operate like that, but only adjacent ones like fuel pumps, yada yada, but the engine block is the same. Even ethanol has higher octane, so my car is 12hp stronger (116 to 128hp) with ethanol than gasoline. Fun fact, here we created and sold for like 2 decades (but it didn't catch in the market) with trucks and tractors with 100% ethanol, and Embraer produces until today some crop planes powered 100% ethanol. (Talking about diesel vehicles we have 27 or 35% I don't remember well, but is something like that biodiesel in our diesel as well)
@@adrianoa.bomm-2f132except to get the more horsepower you dump more fuel in. America uses ethanol also. That’s how we get high horsepower in many cases it keeps the engine running cooler but uses a lot more fuel. 100% gas. About 200% the fuel mileage per gallon of ethanol.
A little correction for minute 5:13. Brazil has cars that run in ethanol since the late 70's (1979 to be precise). The second spike of ethanol was because the Flex cars could run on both gasoline and ethanol in the same engine. Therefore, everybody could choose the fuel that they wanted to use based on the price.
A lot of people in the world think Brazilians are not worried about climate change and the environment. It is not true. There are a lot of people here working hard to help the enviroment.
@@guilhermefaleiros4892 Leftists in governament DONT let happen They need The Focus on earth Care to cover their friendship whit Narcos FROM F.A.R.C 😂
Brazillian here. It's a really weird coicidence that this video came out at the same time Ribeirão Preto (the largest region of cane production in São Paulo) had it's worse burning in decades. It scaled totally out of control, with deaths and property destruction, among other issues as air severe contamination. I live here Ribeirão Preto, and I could see the city being swallowed by black smoke and turning the day into night. It's even more weird that brazillian press isn't instrested in bring atention to it.
The difference is that they used to burn the fields on purpose as a part of the harvesting process, and this year's fires are due to a mixture of accidents due to how dry both the weather and the cane fields are at the moment and organized crime turning to arson to further their goals. The owners of the fields don't want them to burn anymore, now that they've invested so much into both harvesting equipment and adapting the sugar/alcohol factories it makes no economical sense to go back to using fire like they used to. Also, the Brazilian press has been talking about it, it's on the front page of Globo and Folha as I type this.
Tbh, the video depicted how sugar cane is harvested across the most developed state of Brazil. However, that's not the case for neighboring states, like the state of Rio de Janeiro, where sugar cane farms still burns the fields. I can say that because I live in a city near from these fields. Eventually we see ashes falling everywhere along with smoke clouds in the sky. Unfortunately, the best methods applied in São Paulo aren't followed in other states. At least not yet. But it's a good start for sure.
its not a massive fire. also, the ashes from the fire likely helps the soil so some ups and some downs. Fire is not the ultimate enemy of man, its pollution from political corruption, and trying to use solutions that require tearing up the earth ahead of when the technology should be implemented.
Naturally occurring wildfires contribute to 99% of fire-based air pollution. Your next door farmer is not contributing anything to that global mass. You'd rather for food get more expensive because you think a tried and true and cost effective method is "bad" due to your ignorance?
I used to live near sugar cane fields in the countryside of São Paulo, in Brazil. We used to suffer with the smoke and people often had respiratory issues. It's crazy to think this still happens in such a rich state as Florida, specially knowing it isn't a money or tools problem.
@@Mrbfgray The farms that carry out the burning are unable to sell their product to most large export companies, which are where the profits are... Without quality seals or seals that approve the harvest without burning, practically no sugarcane is sold, but it still happens in small productions...
Furthermore, here in Brazil we are already producing 2nd generation ethanol, which also uses sugarcane residues, such as straw left in the field and bagasse left over after milling, to produce ethanol, which increases the efficiency of the entire production process.
People are saying that Burning gives better sugar, which is completely wrong. Harvesting it green has brought an increase to sucrose level, which gave an production increase. Another interesting thing, is that most part of the technology used, came just from USA. We use CASE IH and John Deere harvesters In my city, laws forbidding burn started in 2006 and since the a completely social change has done. Before, poor workers came from northeast top cut sugar cane. Now a good part of them went back to school to learn the knowlegde to learn and operate the harvesters. Harvesting it green, is more efficient, it's done more quickly. A job for an entire week is done in two days around the clock
That's not their purpose, because what they seek is in the ash after burning those left over The ash will help the soil "heal" its nutrition after every season ends to prepare for the next season. Although, If I were a citizen living nearby those fields, I would heavily criticize those practices as well.
@@Loanshark753 aren't we're trying to move away from chemical fertilizer? Also if you want a completely organic decomposition for bio/organic fertilizer then it will take time, the burn process in a way helps sterilize the soil on surface level. But I will not deny the fact that the smoke coming from the burning process is harming too.
@@vanborne5280 So, you'd rather believe a guy with ZERO experience harvesting sugar cane making a video to fit his anti-burn agenda than someone with no agenda whom clearly harvests sugar cane?
Farmers have not set fire to cane fields in Australia for over 30 years! The harvesters seperate the cane from the vegetation and the vegetation goes back on the ground as a trash blanket to stop the moisture transpiring into the atmosphere
that sounds good, idk if the yields will be as high, but defiantly more eco friendly. burning is good though because it makes nutrients immediately available to the next round of crops. but ground cover is important too, so IDK lol
As a lifelong Floridian, 4th Gen., I find it ironic & disingenuous, to hear a woman from Ag. Lobby in state, explaining why they need to keep burning. She don't live anywhere near those burning cane fields. This ain't a new fad. Big Sugar owns politicians, & have been burning for decades now. They also cause large algae blooms in Gulf every year as well. Powerful Lobby.
The part about them not burning the Florida sugar cane when the smoke might head over the coastal rich areas… laughable. 25yrs in palm beach county and coming out to a car covered in ash during the winter is a the norm. Send your thank you cards to the Fanjul family or any of the politicians they own
They don't cause the blooms. The army core of engineers do by opening flood gates to the east to lower lake levels. Florida has invested billions to push water south. It's going to take time but it's being done as we speak.
My two cents: Producing ethanol as a byproduct from this kind of green farming benefits us all. Not only ethanol can be used as a much cleaner biofuel for automobiles than petrol/gasoline, it is also widely used in many other industries such as chemicals production and medical research where demands for ethanol are enormous. Plus it may reduce our reliance on petroleum (especially from imports) and thus allow more energy independence. We should invest in this more.
Oh Brazil tried to do that too, (Proalcool program) matter of fact, a very good portion of cars here in Brazil either run on Ethanol or is a Hybrid (Both gas and Ethanol) When we tried to make this widespread, We were sacked by the 1st world, (Mainly USA) Claiming that farmers would all switch to Sugar cane instead of food, thus increasing the hunger problem, So no one adapted it. The only other nation in which started using ethanol was Russian of all nations.
It will reduce the use of petroleum as fuel, but it won't reduce it as a primal commodity for our current society. Pretty much everything has some petroleum byproduct in some step of the process to make it, if not its entirety. I hope we can solve this puzzle. "Cheap, and clean energy" will do more good to humanity, and the enviroment, than any legislation could ever do.
And India too started E20 blended petrol, but my only problem with Sugar Cane is the excessive use of water by the crop, this may deplete underground water in few years. @@Gabriel-sdf
Think I'd rather have smoke from organic matter that whatever ever goes into producing those pesticides. You like round up on your rice? Cuz that's what the rich countries do to get it to dry out before harvest
@@howa08 there is biopesticides, which is the use of natural predators to kill off these pests. Brazil does this with wasps and other methods that almost doesn't make it necessary to use pesticides. Also, if that sugarcane is going to produce ethanol, the use of pesticides is irrelevant
Stopping sugarcane burning was a blessing. We had horrible air quality when harvest time came. We couldn't see buildings a few blocks away because of the smoke. Now we need to stop the fires in the Amazon forest, which will be hard with this desert-like dryness every year in August.
The Hydrologic Cycles that bring your rain has been stopped by Mad scientists and Weaponized Weather Technology, shutting down the Hydrologic Cycles of every Season. Up north we got about a couple inches of Slush and no actual snow, It was diamond hard Ice from Chem trailing all winter. Blocking, and stepping all together ,the Coriolis Effect through entire seasons.
I was stationed in MT. Home Idaho back in the 70's and used to see tractors pulling big open Trailers with what looked like "Brown Watermelons" and found out they were Sugar Beets. They sure grow lots of them in southern Idaho and Northern Nevada. I guess they grow lots in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington and perhaps northern Utah. y/our comment made me think of Sugar Beets in Idaho.
3:10 , just a bit of information: he is not recognising that there is a downside, he's explaining that without burning the fields the natural enemies of the pests (insects that help the crop), stay on the field and increase in population.
@@bourbontrail565 why would anyone use children?ilegal and we have modern machines that do the work 20x faster and no risk, why are you just spreading fake news?
There is too much stupidity and evil in South Africa. Sasol was created to make the country liquid fuel independent. It does not need coal but a source of carbon. Field residue could be used instead. Used car tyres would also work. The SA mind thinks the best use for a used tyre is to place it on some hapless victim as a Tyre neck less . Eskom could easily use field residue for fuel.
Just a correction, there was a comment on the video that was misunderstood: - When the narrator say there are downsides and the comment is related to pests, the farmer refers to beneficial insects being more present in the area, therefore helping reduce pest pressure, which is also a benefit from green harvest.
The biggest villain in Brazil's deforestation is the beef cattle industry and the wood industry. The beef cattle industry burn forests to quickly open space for livestock.
@@davipires5303 Não cara, foi algo preparado. Existem vários vídeos na Internet de fazendeiros queimando suas colheitas. Não existe isso de queima por causa de seca, para algo queimar é necessário atingir altos graus de temperatura, algo que não se encontra facilmente na NATUREZA. Para algo queimar na natureza seria necessário raios, vulcões ou algum forma de energia estática acender uma faísca, mas é bem improvável, que durante uma semana inteira tenha pegado fogo em várias fazendas no Brasil em horários parecidos. Isso foi feito para além de atrapalhar na fiscalização para poder queimar as canas sem consequências, foi feito também para desestabilizar o governo.
Brazil's answer to its efficient agriculture is called research. In Brazil there is EMBRAPA, that is, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, which in addition to creating varieties of food plants adapted to the country's climate, also creates engineering solutions applied to the cultivation and harvesting of all types of food.
Important to say that green harvesting was imposed by Brazilian Law and regulations in 2012. Better saying there is no option to harvest with a machete, it's forbidden, also the burns! Greetings from Ribeirão Preto 🇧🇷
I wasn't aware of such legislation. However, every year, at least here in the neighborhood where I live (Ipiranga, in Ribeirão Preto as well), our backyards get covered in soot for at least a couple of weeks. Isn't the sugarcane fields responsible for it?
@EduardoWalcacer two hypothesis: 1) the floor covered by residue (dry leaves and other discharged parts of harvested cane) forms what we call "palhinha". In these nowadays dryest climate it can initiate a fire very quickly. The second one is related to what we call "bagacinho", little particles from industrial process spread by wind. Mills are legally liable for both situations.
Lady: We must burn or we'll need to spend your tax dollars on farming. Narrator: The US is already spending $1b on sugar cane farming subsidies each year. Boom, roasted.
what? your proving her point. they need to burn more so we dont spend the extra tax money. how are you on the complete opposite side of the fence with your argument? did you read your own comment?
US is spending tonnes of tax money to fund genocide in Palestine and on wars but don't have money to support farmers of their own country? What a nice joke
Fun fact: The largest sugar-producing company in the world is Südzucker AG and the sixth largest is Nordzucker AG, both from Germany. And Germany bred the first sugar beet around 1800.
People need to also give Brazil some credit, most folks have no idea but the Southern Hemisphere is incredibly inhospitable to large societies, the soil is simply not of the same quality. Brazil is one of the largest communities in the Southern Hemisphere with over 200 million people. Not everyone likes the science behind it to do it, but it is incredible all the same. Its one of the reasons they are a bit beholden to places like Russia as they need lots of fertilizer to make their soil grow food on a large scale.
I grew up in the Burdekin, North Queensland, Australia and they still burn. Its a sight to see and tourists love to see it but a pain in the arse when you live there. The ash gets in bloody everywhere.
As a 30-year-old Brazilian living in the northeast where every crop is sugar cane, I can attest this is true. I didn't even know that until looking at the article, but when I was a kid we would see the burns all the time and it's been ages since I've seen one. Now I know why
This is weird. In South Louisiana we have fields and fields of Sugar Cane. I mean you can drive for a long time through sugar cane crops. All my life I have seen them being harvested in the fall and I have never seen them being burned, not once.
Land might be different. Remember that not all land is equal and they do mention that the soil make up in Brazil is different compared to Florida. While the unwanted plant matter (leaves/roots/ect) might be good for Brazilian soil to help the next batch grow, it may not create that same effect on US soil. Different regions may have different practices based on local ecology. There is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to farming. Hell given the higher moisture content, Florida farmers might not want to use pesticides to avoid runoff pollution harming the swamp environment. So you have to ask yourself which are you willing to take on? Poisoned water or toxic air?
In Louisiana we used to cut the cane in the fields then burn the leaves off, now we use the same style combine cutters as shown in this video for the last decade or two
@graveyardshift6691 I mean the ground could be different and I am no expert, but I can't really imagine, that letting the fields regenerate without burning could be worse, also this is florida in the USA, they don't care about the run off and damage done by pesticides. What it really comes down to, is that the goverment would need to help farmers invest, something that the government isn't willing to do, all it does is sell nature parcs to create golf places.
@@prpr8904 And frankly that's a good thing the government is not involved. While it may have worked in Brazil, when has the Government getting involved in ANYTHING ever worked out well in the US? Surprisingly you're missing a part of the puzzle there. Florida has a lot more wetlands than most states and given that for the last 40-60 years there's been increasing regulations on what you can and can't do with land within or adjacent to wetlands. This was done in an effort to 'save the wetlands' because of how important they are from a ecological standpoint. For a state that is majority wetland, runoff regulations are likely more stringent than in other states where there aren't as many. Because of that, the use of pesticides in Florida is likely far more heavily regulated then other states in an attempt to use negative reinforcement to find alternative means of pest control. Hence burning. Behold, the Government getting involved in one aspect of ecology makes another issue more problematic. The more ecologist activists try to clamp down on 'saving the planet' the harder it is for farmers to even farm as they get caught in ever increasing catch 22s. This in turn often causes farmers to quit and guess what happens when they do? Ever heard of the 'Food Desert' problems in NYC as a result of social activism and Government intervention there driving restaurants and markets out of business?
@@graveyardshift6691 Honestly your argument of unwanted plant matter leaving different effect on the soil is mind boggling. Soil in Brazil and Florida are both in tropics, which both have problems with preservation of moist in soil. For the sake of argument, you can't grow sugar canes in swamps and therefore swamps in Florida has the same zero effect as rivers in Brasil on the moisture of the soil. The issue with South American red soil is not that much a lack of moisture but lack of organic matter, as it is basically soil of flood sand of former sea. I don't have agrocultural speciality, but from my farming that I am doing, I hardly imagine that there is too much excess of organic matter for Florida farms - the organic matter would be simply used by whatever is growing there - and in the sugarcanes case it would only add some extra suculentness to sugarcanes, given that by the harvest time all fo that farm land would be dried up anyway. I'm not really sure about pest issue, that was mentioned in video - I can only guess that burning removes them and they are not processed, while pesticides might be still used both in Brasil and Florida - modern farming is simply impossible without pesticides - if you don't use them crops are going to be dead - and not necessary from critters but from various diseases. The main issue with burning might be that the pesticides might be spreading with smoke.
I live in the interior of northeastern Brazil and I have worked in an sugar cane alcohol destilary and here ALL industries burn the sugarcane and use manual labor in the harvest.
Eu acho que é devido a geografia do local. Pelo o que a milha vó falava, a queima era para facilitar o trabalho dos trabalhadores, devido o pelo e a palha que corta. Ps: vinha vó era cortadora de cana. 😅
I dont think so. I also live in SP inland and it has diminished a lot in the past decade. This weekend is happening a lot of fire and burning farm areas, but those are unintentional fires, not because of the crop itself, but for the dry and hot period of the year and criminal fire setters
Unfortunately SP isn’t the only producing region on the country, Recife also has a big concentration of sugar producers, and some of those farmers don’t have enough infrastructure/tech to stop burning. It’s not a solved problem and it’s not better than the US, but still, we shouldn’t discard our advances. Also, missed opportunity by business insider to talk about the “Capitanias Hereditárias” and the “Pinga/Cachaça”, smh
@@viniciusbueno4226 These illegal fires are financed by farmers with massive swathes of land for the explicit purpose of illegally taking more land. Agricultural conservatism is a c4nc3r.
The shift needed in Florida is simple: free trade. The industry largely exists because of protectionist US trade policy, which has been challenged successfully in the WTO and as a result the US is under retaliatory trade sanctions. But the US refuses to comply, because of lobbying.
The majority of sugarcane producers in Brazil still set their fields on fire! Just to make it clear. São Paulo should help other states from Brazil to implement these new tecnologies! Greetings from Rio.
it happens in Sao Paulo too. the law is in the federal level, not from the state. if a farmer is not following the law it has nothing to do with Sao Paulo.
A questão é que muitos produtores de cana não querem (ou não tem dinheiro) para investir nessas máquinas. E inclusive, muitos dos trabalhadores em situações análogas à escravidão trabalham nesses canaviais.
Yes. It's as easy as looking at Google Maps. Many sugarcane farms in Sao Paulo - Brazil have signs of burning in the images of its fields, even this year.
Yes. It's as easy as looking at Google Maps. Many sugarcane farms in Sao Paulo - Brazil have signs of burning in the images of its fields, even this year.
I’m an intern at in a company that sells agricultural aircraft. This year, we visited a sugarcane farm, and the farmer had been working in the field for over 50 years. He said the same thing-there are pros and cons to not burning the fields, and one of them is having to use more pesticides to control pests. Besides, burning the fields is illegal. Nowadays, most crops go straight from the farm to the mills for processing. If you drive through the roads in the interior of São Paulo, you’ll see endless sugarcane fields, and the roads smell like sugarcane. Where there isn’t a plantation, there’s an ethanol mill
As a brazilian that works in a Sugar power plant, today there are biological pestcides that have a much more lower impact im the environment, theses biological pesticides are in early development an there is a a lot to improve. As today sadly we cannot switch fully to it. But from my point of view there is no way to justify the burning of crops.
As a Brazilian, I'm proud and happy to our country being recognized beyond the stereotypes of Carnival (most promiscuous party in the world) and Soccer (another futile thing). I hope that one day Brazil will be equally recognized for its warm-hearted people, rich culinary traditions, and breathtaking natural beauty.
I appreciate the Brazilian hospitality particularly those outside of Brazil. Who does not like a good Mocequa?’ However 48% of household not having a hook up to to a sewer line is deplorable. Worse yet is rivers of sewage running down the street. These reports are made by Brazilian themselves and stated in Portuguese. Injustice permeates Brazil. Of which, you are not to keen to acknowledge.
Cara, o carnaval existe em todo o mundo cristão, e o futebol existe em todo o mundo. Acontece que o Brasil é muito bom em futebol e tem uma tradição enorme de carnaval. O que o Brasil certamente não tem é a rica tradição culinária.
You guys should revise the "whitout burning fields" affirmation. Sugar-cane farmers are burning fields accross Brazil and we are suffocating from the smoke.
São Paulo é um dos únicos que proibiu o fogo e essa lei vale até 2030, então só as grandes usinas estão de acordo com a lei, algumas menores ou em outros estados ainda fazem essas queimadas, principalmente em estados com muita representação da bancada do agro. Não vão mudar tão cedo enquanto tiver tantos políticos financiados pelos grandes usineiros e proprietários de terra.
As a brazillian, im happy that things are taking a turn for the better on how sugar cane is harvested, but in the northeast, the region which produces the most of sugarcane throughtout Brazil still burns most of the fields, specially on the south region of my home state, Pernambuco
I'm from the northeast region of Brazil, in my city there are still sugarcane burnings, the sugarcane field is quite remote, the only thing that changes the color of the sunlight and causes burnt straws to fall, fortunately as this could be more harmful to the residents. I hope this changes soon, although it would put a lot of people out of work.
Real estate disclosure package should have stated that there are burning sugar cane fields downwind in the winter. Sue the seller and real estate broker.
In Brazil we have the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) they are the responsibles for all the advances and biotechnology responsible for the success of Brazilian agriculture.
The "without burning fields" part hits a little different as I look out of my window in southeast Brazil and only see smoke. Air quality is the lowest ever, it hasn't rained in 120 days (a 60 year record) and fires (including four agriculture) are everywhere.
@@ronblack7870 Octane boosters in gasoline have an interesting history. It would seem internal combustion engines need higher octane than petroleum-only gasoline can provide. Ethanol happens to be (maybe) the best compromise of octane boost. I just saw a video about geothermal energy becoming more practical due to using high energy drilling to vaporize rock instead of using metal drill heads. Wouldn't it be great to be able to drill straight down to cleanly harness the nuclear heat energy wherever its needed? No more need for ethanol fuel.
In the Philippines, we dont burn our fields unless it was accidentally burned. The sugarcane will spoil in 2-3 days worse when it rains. We have varieties that are not heavy in leaves and self-thrashing.
Although this is a success story from Brazil, If you enter any news website during winter months (like today) you Will see that fire is still used A LOT around here. However, these fires are used to "clean and renew" grasslands for cattle, which is also the main cause for the Amazon Rainforest destruction. Usually the moisture from the Amazon rises up, is blocked by the Andes Mountains and brings rains to South East Brazil (like São Paulo). However, these past days It is bringing only smoke. The Air is almost unbereable in some regions because of this. And it's getting worse and worse
Wonderfully relieved to see smoke continuing all over Florida - of course done without fines and ignored in Davos. Not alone, seen similar pics of North India, where New Delhi is cloaked in smoke fog in winter, & vehicles blamed! On merchant ships worldwide, smoke over 2 minutes ca immediately attracts black listing and fines.
@@viniciusbueno4226 for criminal or unintentional fire, they tend to happen frequently after harvest season. When I lived further inland, between july and september the city would be covered in soot and the air became nigh unbreathable when the wind blew eastward. A weird coincidence, no?
@@JK4m3r0n yeah as you said, it tent to happen a lot in the past. But, at least for the last decade that became very, very uncommon. Last time I saw a fire like that, bringing all that ashed stuff, was ages ago, I can't even remember, but during childhood it was like 10 times per year
@@JK4m3r0n The purpose of these fires is different, though - it's to illegally take forested land to grow their crops. Also, the livestock industry (pecuária) wants to illegally increase pastures as well.
@@Gabu_Not the case with the current fires in São Paulo There is video of arsonists deliberately setting the fields on fire. Likely paid to do so by the farmers. As the video explained. No fires means more pesticides and Brazil has weak pesticide legislation and even weaker enforcement. Pick you poison. Pesticides in your sugar and water or smoke in your air. This issue is not as binary as people assume.
Cane farmers in the state of Queensland, Australia, have been harvesting cane with this method for a number of decades now. Though, some farmers might still burn prior to harvesting. Cane must be harvested and processes quickly after burning as burning apparently does damage to sugar content in the stalk.
ethanol production is a funny thing started doing it because yeah it seems like its cleaner than gasoline on paper now that its been studied more, turns out it just straight up isnt, it actually pollutes more than gasoline due to its production chain
Depends on what the production chain is like tho. If youre producing it and you don't care how its made like the example in the video then yeah, ofc it'll just be as bad, but if you regulate the whole process you'll get the same results as in Brazil where you can only sell ethanol if you produce it without burning the fields! Regulation is necessary as producers will always chose the easier and cheaper way out!
@@gilzineto those parts do matter, but clearing fields to make room for farm land, using so much land for farming, refining and transporting, they all have an environmental impact
So burning and not burning both have their pros/cons. I'm wondering what new pesticides and chemicals are introduced for the non-burning method and how much of it gets into the actual sugar.
I'd just like to do a small addition about the Sao Paulo State law that bans burning sugarcane fields. Many cities passed local laws which banned burning the fields about 10~15 years ago. I lived in a city in the early 2010's where burning the fields was prohibited, but the neighboring city didn't have a similar law back then, so we kind of ended up suffering from our neighbors burning their fields anyway. Around 2015, most of the cities around where I lived had local laws prohibiting burning the sugarcane fields.
Here in Brazil, all gas stations have at least 3 types of fuel: Gasoline, diesel and Ethanol. Ethanol is cheaper, cleaner and generates more power in the engine, which can increase by up to 30%. Most cars here can be refueled with gasoline and ethanol.
Incorrect, Ethanol has 30% *LESS* energy than Gasoline and while most cars can use a 10% Ethanol/gasoline blend, to get the same performance requires increasing the fuel flow into the engine.
ethanol lowers range by about 30%, so it really isn't cheaper per kilometer than gasoline most of the time. the power increase is nowhere near that much. it's usually about 8%
@@GraveUypo also, the main deal with ethanol is that it is a carbon neutral fuel, unlike gasoline. All the carbon that is emitted during production and use in the engine was captured by the sugarcane while it was growing
@@MrVitorao It only gives more power to the engine if the engine is specifically tuned for it, which involves increasing fuel consumption. And the savings are far less than the cost of the extra fuel you burn.
Ethanol is garbage and that's a fact. It is inefficient, corrosive and does not produce the mileage or horsepower of gasoline and diesel. Educate yourself
Horsepower is higher on ethanol, as it's a more efficient combustion. Mileage is marginally lower, but technology has evolved a lot in the past decades
Just think for a minute and ask yourself: If ethanol was to replace gasoline around the globe, what would happen to the remaining pristine forests (Amazonia for example) on Earth? In this same video is mentioned that, in the state of S. Paulo alone, the area used for sugar cane plantations increased by 5x since the establishment of the incentives for ethanol production, an increase of area obtained by the destruction of large areas of pristine natural forests and ecosystems. This is the exact same reason why Humanity can't become fully vegetarian without destroying what remains of the natural environments of the Earth.
America and Brazil are the largest ethanol producers in the world, what the hell are you even talking about?! Also, it doesn't have to be sugar cane based - corn and beets are popular too.
8:00 is is the Burning, my mother has BRONCHITIS and it suddenly stopped being such a pain for her every year after the sugar burning stopped in our region in São Paulo inland (our city is rounded by sugar cane fields).
Farming must not go this beyond. There are several ways to deal with this where there's no need of burning and pesticides. If we take care of land and soil rest of the things takes care of crops. We shouldn't forgot it's out duty to feed other being as well in this nature. Let the pest enjoy subtle part of the farming. That's fine.
If you were a farmer you would know nothing is black and white. there are way more variables to farming than you know. letting pests enjoy the fruits of your labor is pretty much unacceptable, that's money coming out of my wallet.
Proud of Brazil, very unsurprised about Florida. I see it all over the place in America whether it’s the choices of individuals, companies or the government - The additude is “Why should I stop making money just because it’s causing harm to other people?”
So, did you miss the part where the US makes almost twice as much ethanol as Brazil, and most of that is from corn? There isn't much for big scary oil to worry about. Also, Florida produces less than half the sugar Brazil does, so even if ethanol production from sugar were maxed out, it would be about 4 Billion gallons. The US uses about 300 Billion gallons of oil per year, so one percent of it coming from sugar wouldn't exactly be a game changer for any oil company. US oil production domestically is 255 Billion gallons of oil, making it the world's largest producer of oil.
The economics of the US and Brazil are very different. This article also doesn't talk about total carbon footprints. Or the inpact of the additional pesticides required. Incomplete or even miss leading reporting.
@AthosRac The additional chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides they mention. Most are petrochemical and produced outside Brazil. What's the total impact end to end?
Did nobody in this comment section saw the video? No, the soil doesn't get more nutrients. When the plants are harvested the nutrients get out of the soil, if you leave the leaves you just give back some of the lost nutrients (so you need to add less between harvests). The soil gets "better" because of the added organic matter (wich the soils in Brasil lack). Florida Is a different case because the soil already have a lot of organic matter, so adding more ends up being a problem. The problem here lies un that for Brasil green harvest altough more expensive since it needs pesticides gives better soils, so it ends up note costing that much more. In Florida you have the added cost without the benefits. WATCH THE DARN VIDEO
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Brazil is currently facing massive wildfires and I've seen most people blaming sugar farmers for starting it
They said that the farmers have until 2031 to end the burn so it is a gradual process and it will take time but at least some steps are taken were in the USA you have big lobbies spending millions to block any change.
the price of a sugar cane collector is around 500k USD per unit. Case IH and John Deere are players on this market. But each year they have new models with upgrades. On the region I live, we see they work on the fields. a 2 man crew could buy and pay the mortgage of a collector within 1 year of work, but the crew works 24/7 on the 2x harvest per year.
Big Brazilian agricultural companies have high environmental standards, I´m glad it is starting to be recognized. By the way, Brazilian Ethanol could change the world dependancy on oil, way cheaper and much cleaner.
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No, in Brazil, there are lots of farmers in the countryside of São Paulo state, Pernambuco state, Bahia state, and Mato Grosso state burning their fields right now. This happens every year, just come to here between July and September and you will see.
i'm from Pernambuco and work in the sugar cane industry, and thats true, most of the fields here are still burnt, but the problem is that those big harvesters that can cut the sugar cane whitout the burning don't work on fields with hills and thats the large majority of the fields here. We have special harvesters that can pick up the burnt and cut canes and put them on trucks, they are called "carregadeira bell".
In 1975, brazilian government started the program "Pró-Álcool" (Pro-Ethanol) and in 1979, some cars started to run only in Ethanol, not in 2000's. In 2000's was the Flex-fuel program, when cars started to run with Ethanol or Gasoline according with owner's choice.
Floridian big businesses: we burn things all the time in the open, but our smoke is harmless, we promise! What do they think they are burning, a pile of bullshit?😂
Lovely, im brazilian however illegal fires are very often and the government does not inspect the fields. So yeah the technology is there, we made it happen and a lot of people insist in not applying.
Gotta love the one sided 'reporting' on this. Pesticides = good. Releasing particulates = bad. Maybe we should just stop all sugar subsidies so that a glass of sugary soda is more expense than a glass of orange juice. Might not be a bad thing.
From India, Largest Sugarcane Producer, I have never seen farmers burning 🔥 sugarcane fields. They burn Rice & Soyabean stalk. Also, India started Ethanol Production from Sugarcane. That's why no to little sugar surplus & export.
I've researched quite a lot about ethanol fuel, and it still mesmerizes me that Brazil is basically the only country that uses pure ethanol as a vehicle fuel. It's much cleaner, runs just as well as gasoline (makes a little less mileage, but it's cheaper), and we've had the technology for over 25 years.
A lot of research criticizes ethanol use as it being harmful to engine components (especially ruber and polymer components such as gaskets), but in Brazil almost every vehicle is fuel-flex (meaning it can run with any gasoline/alcohol blend, even 100% alcohol), and we have literally millions of vehicles with over 100k miles that have never seen a drop of gasoline and run like a charm.
I’m the same way. I personally believe it’s due to various forms of lack of incentive: dozens of excuses (e.g. ethanol is no good in cold weather; not true since new flex engines created in 2006 and onwards), the size and sheer power of the petroleum industry, governments (and people overall) that are not well informed, etc.
I mean, even for Brazil it took reaching a very dire situation (the extremely high gasoline prices in the 70s) to make the government consider the possibility of using an alternative fuel.
@@paulotaviorod I completely agree. In my opinion, it’s mostly due to lack of incentive and information, and I would even go as far as to say that oil companies actively promote the idea that ethanol fuel is not as good as gasoline, considering how much misinformation there is in the public (especially in the US).
Newer flex-fuel engines can run just as well on ethanol as they can on gasoline, and due to advances in heated fuel injection they have no problem with cold weather as well.
As far as I’ve read, it’s also cleaner to push for hybrid vehicles running on ethanol than to push for full electrification (especially in the US, where only 20% of the energy produced comes from renewable sources).
Anyway, it’s a complex topic and I really hope to see advances in this field worldwide in the next decade
If you go to forums from brands like ducati they say that any percentage above 5% of ethanol in the fuel will ruin completely the engine and dissolve the tank, but that same bike runs absolutely fine with 30% of ethanol in the gasoline and the tank don't deform even in bikes with more than 20 years of use.
Yeah, here in Brazil we don't even have 100% gasoline, because it's mixed 35% ethanol in the gasoline. Our cars goes more than 2 decades without 100% gasoline here, and there's no big problem with them. Yeah, there are some changes in the components to operate like that, but only adjacent ones like fuel pumps, yada yada, but the engine block is the same. Even ethanol has higher octane, so my car is 12hp stronger (116 to 128hp) with ethanol than gasoline. Fun fact, here we created and sold for like 2 decades (but it didn't catch in the market) with trucks and tractors with 100% ethanol, and Embraer produces until today some crop planes powered 100% ethanol. (Talking about diesel vehicles we have 27 or 35% I don't remember well, but is something like that biodiesel in our diesel as well)
@@adrianoa.bomm-2f132except to get the more horsepower you dump more fuel in. America uses ethanol also. That’s how we get high horsepower in many cases it keeps the engine running cooler but uses a lot more fuel. 100% gas. About 200% the fuel mileage per gallon of ethanol.
A little correction for minute 5:13. Brazil has cars that run in ethanol since the late 70's (1979 to be precise). The second spike of ethanol was because the Flex cars could run on both gasoline and ethanol in the same engine. Therefore, everybody could choose the fuel that they wanted to use based on the price.
Yes, exactly.
And gasoline, consistently, beats the price every single time.
@@sirdeakianot in São Paulo, where most of the ethanol plants are, here it's pretty rare for gasoline to be worth it.
@@sirdeakia seems like you're too preoccupied in your area
A lot of people in the world think Brazilians are not worried about climate change and the environment. It is not true. There are a lot of people here working hard to help the enviroment.
the world knows the US has destroyed over 3 times the amount of fauna and flora that brazil has
There’s also a lot here working hard to help the climate change
@@rafaelcruzs2 the majority😢
@@paulogaldino9292 its the minority. Its just that the minority has all the land
@@caioramos8454 you're insanely right....💀
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We just have to and the devastation of the amazon now 😂 but thanks!
@@guilhermefaleiros4892 Leftists in governament DONT let happen They need The Focus on earth Care to cover their friendship whit Narcos FROM F.A.R.C 😂
@@guilhermefaleiros4892fecha esses dentes deixa de falar besteira 😾
Yeah, solving the Amazon thing would be optimal. Even because Brazil is fucked if it cuts down everything.
@@Gokugaroto AMAZÔNIA ESTÁ EM CHAMAS SENDO DESTRUIDA, OS RIOS ESTÃO SECANDO. E VOCÊ CRITICANDO O CARA
Brazillian here. It's a really weird coicidence that this video came out at the same time Ribeirão Preto (the largest region of cane production in São Paulo) had it's worse burning in decades. It scaled totally out of control, with deaths and property destruction, among other issues as air severe contamination. I live here Ribeirão Preto, and I could see the city being swallowed by black smoke and turning the day into night. It's even more weird that brazillian press isn't instrested in bring atention to it.
Same here in Araraquara/SP, two weeks now with smoke almost every day covering the city.
The difference is that they used to burn the fields on purpose as a part of the harvesting process, and this year's fires are due to a mixture of accidents due to how dry both the weather and the cane fields are at the moment and organized crime turning to arson to further their goals. The owners of the fields don't want them to burn anymore, now that they've invested so much into both harvesting equipment and adapting the sugar/alcohol factories it makes no economical sense to go back to using fire like they used to. Also, the Brazilian press has been talking about it, it's on the front page of Globo and Folha as I type this.
@@jullyjv 80% of the fires are in private fields. The agro industry is the one burning it all.
@@jullyjv "organized crime" lol
The press is not interested because PT - a political party - is in power now. They are hiding everything that can make them look bad
"A few decades ago Brazilians figured out how to harvest sugar cane without fires"
Intentionally medieval USA: *We have no clue how to do that.*
burning is cheaper and gives better sugar
Well we harvest can sugar for like 500 years so are really medieval its ok 🫂
Tbh, the video depicted how sugar cane is harvested across the most developed state of Brazil. However, that's not the case for neighboring states, like the state of Rio de Janeiro, where sugar cane farms still burns the fields. I can say that because I live in a city near from these fields. Eventually we see ashes falling everywhere along with smoke clouds in the sky. Unfortunately, the best methods applied in São Paulo aren't followed in other states. At least not yet. But it's a good start for sure.
@@danielm5098 well not yet but maybe later yes, here in alagoas it's burned too
@danielm5098 even in São Paulo it depends on the city
I never knew a massive fire would have no impact on air quality
I hope this is sarcasm 😮
@@கோபிசுதாகர் 😐
its not a massive fire. also, the ashes from the fire likely helps the soil so some ups and some downs. Fire is not the ultimate enemy of man, its pollution from political corruption, and trying to use solutions that require tearing up the earth ahead of when the technology should be implemented.
Naturally occurring wildfires contribute to 99% of fire-based air pollution. Your next door farmer is not contributing anything to that global mass. You'd rather for food get more expensive because you think a tried and true and cost effective method is "bad" due to your ignorance?
@@Sammysapphira fine you move into the smoke zone for the sake of keeping prices down. Thank you for your sacrifice.
I used to live near sugar cane fields in the countryside of São Paulo, in Brazil. We used to suffer with the smoke and people often had respiratory issues. It's crazy to think this still happens in such a rich state as Florida, specially knowing it isn't a money or tools problem.
You are still in Brazilian think mode. Rich does not mean amiable nor hospitable. You don’t say that you live in Florida.
According to this comments section, Brazil still burns.
@@Mrbfgray It is now in the News that there are massive forrest fires the state of São Paulo and 30 cities are burning.
@@Mrbfgray The farms that carry out the burning are unable to sell their product to most large export companies, which are where the profits are... Without quality seals or seals that approve the harvest without burning, practically no sugarcane is sold, but it still happens in small productions...
@@Mrbfgray For different reasons, all related to conservatism and the meat industry.
Furthermore, here in Brazil we are already producing 2nd generation ethanol, which also uses sugarcane residues, such as straw left in the field and bagasse left over after milling, to produce ethanol, which increases the efficiency of the entire production process.
People are saying that Burning gives better sugar, which is completely wrong. Harvesting it green has brought an increase to sucrose level, which gave an production increase. Another interesting thing, is that most part of the technology used, came just from USA. We use CASE IH and John Deere harvesters
In my city, laws forbidding burn started in 2006 and since the a completely social change has done. Before, poor workers came from northeast top cut sugar cane. Now a good part of them went back to school to learn the knowlegde to learn and operate the harvesters.
Harvesting it green, is more efficient, it's done more quickly. A job for an entire week is done in two days around the clock
That's not their purpose, because what they seek is in the ash after burning those left over The ash will help the soil "heal" its nutrition after every season ends to prepare for the next season. Although, If I were a citizen living nearby those fields, I would heavily criticize those practices as well.
What about fertilizer, or compost.
@@Loanshark753 aren't we're trying to move away from chemical fertilizer? Also if you want a completely organic decomposition for bio/organic fertilizer then it will take time, the burn process in a way helps sterilize the soil on surface level. But I will not deny the fact that the smoke coming from the burning process is harming too.
@maurooliveira984 Really? In the video, they talk about a lower extract rate.
@@vanborne5280 So, you'd rather believe a guy with ZERO experience harvesting sugar cane making a video to fit his anti-burn agenda than someone with no agenda whom clearly harvests sugar cane?
Farmers have not set fire to cane fields in Australia for over 30 years! The harvesters seperate the cane from the vegetation and the vegetation goes back on the ground as a trash blanket to stop the moisture transpiring into the atmosphere
congrats
Yes. That's why the first harvest machine was imported from there. And consultancy too.
that sounds good, idk if the yields will be as high, but defiantly more eco friendly. burning is good though because it makes nutrients immediately available to the next round of crops. but ground cover is important too, so IDK lol
I wonder if bro watched entire vid..... anyway 10:55
Also, regarding the part of ethanol market 12:03
Easy to do when you're a tiny producer 😂
As a lifelong Floridian, 4th Gen., I find it ironic & disingenuous, to hear a woman from Ag. Lobby in state, explaining why they need to keep burning. She don't live anywhere near those burning cane fields. This ain't a new fad. Big Sugar owns politicians, & have been burning for decades now. They also cause large algae blooms in Gulf every year as well. Powerful Lobby.
Some one who calls herself "the farm babe" has issues to start with...
The part about them not burning the Florida sugar cane when the smoke might head over the coastal rich areas… laughable. 25yrs in palm beach county and coming out to a car covered in ash during the winter is a the norm.
Send your thank you cards to the Fanjul family or any of the politicians they own
They don't cause the blooms. The army core of engineers do by opening flood gates to the east to lower lake levels. Florida has invested billions to push water south. It's going to take time but it's being done as we speak.
@@jasonrod4523 they wouldn't need to lower water levels if they didn't dike it in the first place. You're being disingenuous.
You are obviously crazy... after all, she is a self-proclaimed "Babe"... aka Karen.
My two cents: Producing ethanol as a byproduct from this kind of green farming benefits us all. Not only ethanol can be used as a much cleaner biofuel for automobiles than petrol/gasoline, it is also widely used in many other industries such as chemicals production and medical research where demands for ethanol are enormous.
Plus it may reduce our reliance on petroleum (especially from imports) and thus allow more energy independence.
We should invest in this more.
Ethanol does not burn as well as gasoline
Oh Brazil tried to do that too, (Proalcool program) matter of fact, a very good portion of cars here in Brazil either run on Ethanol or is a Hybrid (Both gas and Ethanol)
When we tried to make this widespread,
We were sacked by the 1st world, (Mainly USA)
Claiming that farmers would all switch to Sugar cane instead of food, thus increasing the hunger problem,
So no one adapted it.
The only other nation in which started using ethanol was Russian of all nations.
It will reduce the use of petroleum as fuel, but it won't reduce it as a primal commodity for our current society. Pretty much everything has some petroleum byproduct in some step of the process to make it, if not its entirety. I hope we can solve this puzzle. "Cheap, and clean energy" will do more good to humanity, and the enviroment, than any legislation could ever do.
And India too started E20 blended petrol, but my only problem with Sugar Cane is the excessive use of water by the crop, this may deplete underground water in few years.
@@Gabriel-sdf
Rich countries burning fields is inexcusable when alternative technology exists.
This is an interesting topic though, you're either looking at Burns or pesticide use, each have their downsides, I can't say which is worse.
Think I'd rather have smoke from organic matter that whatever ever goes into producing those pesticides. You like round up on your rice? Cuz that's what the rich countries do to get it to dry out before harvest
@@howa08 there is biopesticides, which is the use of natural predators to kill off these pests. Brazil does this with wasps and other methods that almost doesn't make it necessary to use pesticides. Also, if that sugarcane is going to produce ethanol, the use of pesticides is irrelevant
if its cheaper then let them do it, why would i (as a customer) pay extra for not burning?
@@trader2137 it's lazier actually. Brazil doesn't burn it and have sugar prices a fraction of sugar prices in USA
Brazilian agribusiness is one of the most technological in the world, and one of the most productive too. As a Brazilian I feel very proud.
What idiocy... most of the production is for export and the people only get the crumbs. But that's Brazil, right... order and progress...
@@F00000x teu cu se liga ...vc deve ser da regiao do bolsa familia
@@F00000x That is not a problem caused by Agrobusiness and Producers, it's about shitty economic management by politicians in the last 20 years...
Porque carajos tão brigando em inglês?? 😂😂😂😂
@@F00000x That's bullshit. Food here is rich and cheap.
Stopping sugarcane burning was a blessing. We had horrible air quality when harvest time came. We couldn't see buildings a few blocks away because of the smoke.
Now we need to stop the fires in the Amazon forest, which will be hard with this desert-like dryness every year in August.
Stop eating meat, and then the fires in Amazon or any other area will faint.
This year's record fires don't matter, only those in 2020, because of obvious issues. The Amazon is just an excuse.
Unfortunately the fires haven´t stopped.
The Hydrologic Cycles that bring your rain has been stopped by Mad scientists and Weaponized Weather Technology, shutting down the Hydrologic Cycles of every Season. Up north we got about a couple inches of Slush and no actual snow, It was diamond hard Ice from Chem trailing all winter. Blocking, and stepping all together ,the Coriolis Effect through entire seasons.
Big Sugar works to keep burning fields in America, Big Soy works to keep burning forests in Brazil
An estimated 55-60% of all sugar produced in the US comes from sugar beets.
I didn't know that, neat :)
I was stationed in MT. Home Idaho back in the 70's and used to see tractors pulling big open Trailers with what looked like "Brown Watermelons" and found out they were Sugar Beets. They sure grow lots of them in southern Idaho and Northern Nevada. I guess they grow lots in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington and perhaps northern Utah. y/our comment made me think of Sugar Beets in Idaho.
It isn´t easy to research
3:10 , just a bit of information: he is not recognising that there is a downside, he's explaining that without burning the fields the natural enemies of the pests (insects that help the crop), stay on the field and increase in population.
Impressive bravo to Brazil for not harming people and harvesting sugar
Children working in those fields aren’t they .
@@bourbontrail565not anymore with sugar. The big problem here is the semi-slave work in some cultures like grapes, apples, and some ilegal logging.
@@bourbontrail565 why would anyone use children?ilegal and we have modern machines that do the work 20x faster and no risk, why are you just spreading fake news?
Bravo 👏 they kill tens of thousands of acres of rainforest. Yay
@@bourbontrail565 oh my fkn god. no. they have never been, too. that's propaganda that's fed to you to make you feel good about your country.
Huh? We in Indonesia never burn the sugarcane field...
Since the dutch east india I think.
We give the leaf to cattle.
What is it that you burn in Borneo that blacks the air up to Singapore ?
@@VonKirda That's because they have grudge against singapore and malaysia.
@@VonKirda that is forest, not sugarcane
@@Aldnon lol
@@armored.angels so you smoke AND destroy forests. So much better !
South Africa needs to adopt this method too.
There is too much stupidity and evil in South Africa. Sasol was created to make the country liquid fuel independent. It does not need coal but a source of carbon. Field residue could be used instead. Used car tyres would also work. The SA mind thinks the best use for a used tyre is to place it on some hapless victim as a Tyre neck less . Eskom could easily use field residue for fuel.
We get your sugar at the refinery I work at in America.
@@estebancorral5151there is too much arrogance as well.
@@bundubashing2591 and there is too much complacency masquerading as humility.
Why so negative? I agree, it would be good if we can adopt similar methods here in SA.
Brazil is the top exporter for sugar at my country (Malaysia) .
We just packed it and sell it to consumer
Malaysia does burning of forest which is much worse than burning of sugar cane fields.
Just a correction, there was a comment on the video that was misunderstood:
- When the narrator say there are downsides and the comment is related to pests, the farmer refers to beneficial insects being more present in the area, therefore helping reduce pest pressure, which is also a benefit from green harvest.
Thank you, Brazil, and everyone who is helping to save the health of our Earth. Much respect!
Funnily enough, this video was posted right around when one of the worst man-made fires went down in Brazil, covering many states in smoke.
Yes, but not of this is guilty of sugar industry, but for the dry conditions.
It's different.
The biggest villain in Brazil's deforestation is the beef cattle industry and the wood industry. The beef cattle industry burn forests to quickly open space for livestock.
But not related to sugarcane fields. Don't be dishonest, dude.
@@davipires5303 Não cara, foi algo preparado. Existem vários vídeos na Internet de fazendeiros queimando suas colheitas. Não existe isso de queima por causa de seca, para algo queimar é necessário atingir altos graus de temperatura, algo que não se encontra facilmente na NATUREZA.
Para algo queimar na natureza seria necessário raios, vulcões ou algum forma de energia estática acender uma faísca, mas é bem improvável, que durante uma semana inteira tenha pegado fogo em várias fazendas no Brasil em horários parecidos. Isso foi feito para além de atrapalhar na fiscalização para poder queimar as canas sem consequências, foi feito também para desestabilizar o governo.
It's still happening to this day, I literally can't see the horizon due to the smoke
Brazil's answer to its efficient agriculture is called research. In Brazil there is EMBRAPA, that is, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, which in addition to creating varieties of food plants adapted to the country's climate, also creates engineering solutions applied to the cultivation and harvesting of all types of food.
Important to say that green harvesting was imposed by Brazilian Law and regulations in 2012. Better saying there is no option to harvest with a machete, it's forbidden, also the burns! Greetings from Ribeirão Preto 🇧🇷
I wasn't aware of such legislation. However, every year, at least here in the neighborhood where I live (Ipiranga, in Ribeirão Preto as well), our backyards get covered in soot for at least a couple of weeks. Isn't the sugarcane fields responsible for it?
@EduardoWalcacer two hypothesis: 1) the floor covered by residue (dry leaves and other discharged parts of harvested cane) forms what we call "palhinha". In these nowadays dryest climate it can initiate a fire very quickly. The second one is related to what we call "bagacinho", little particles from industrial process spread by wind. Mills are legally liable for both situations.
@@EduardoWalcacer no owner fields (although they should be) solely sugar cane mills.
aqui na minha cidade no interior do rio continuam queimando,chove carvao direto.
Why did hand harvesting get banned?
Lady: We must burn or we'll need to spend your tax dollars on farming.
Narrator: The US is already spending $1b on sugar cane farming subsidies each year.
Boom, roasted.
what? your proving her point. they need to burn more so we dont spend the extra tax money. how are you on the complete opposite side of the fence with your argument? did you read your own comment?
That’s pocket change. Government Mandates are costing the GM and Ford 5 Billion a year to switch to EVs.
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 OR maybe we stop subsidizing huge conglomerates and just have less sugar in our food?
Narrator lied. Because one second after he said that, he said most of it goes to other crops and not sugar cane. Lying media with an agenda.
US is spending tonnes of tax money to fund genocide in Palestine and on wars but don't have money to support farmers of their own country? What a nice joke
Fun fact: The largest sugar-producing company in the world is Südzucker AG and the sixth largest is Nordzucker AG, both from Germany. And Germany bred the first sugar beet around 1800.
People need to also give Brazil some credit, most folks have no idea but the Southern Hemisphere is incredibly inhospitable to large societies, the soil is simply not of the same quality. Brazil is one of the largest communities in the Southern Hemisphere with over 200 million people. Not everyone likes the science behind it to do it, but it is incredible all the same. Its one of the reasons they are a bit beholden to places like Russia as they need lots of fertilizer to make their soil grow food on a large scale.
I grew up in the Burdekin, North Queensland, Australia and they still burn. Its a sight to see and tourists love to see it but a pain in the arse when you live there. The ash gets in bloody everywhere.
I can a make u my Australian friend?
As a 30-year-old Brazilian living in the northeast where every crop is sugar cane, I can attest this is true. I didn't even know that until looking at the article, but when I was a kid we would see the burns all the time and it's been ages since I've seen one. Now I know why
Welll the burning continues here in the northeast. In Pernambuco there still a lof of burns...
This is weird. In South Louisiana we have fields and fields of Sugar Cane. I mean you can drive for a long time through sugar cane crops. All my life I have seen them being harvested in the fall and I have never seen them being burned, not once.
Land might be different. Remember that not all land is equal and they do mention that the soil make up in Brazil is different compared to Florida.
While the unwanted plant matter (leaves/roots/ect) might be good for Brazilian soil to help the next batch grow, it may not create that same effect on US soil.
Different regions may have different practices based on local ecology. There is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to farming.
Hell given the higher moisture content, Florida farmers might not want to use pesticides to avoid runoff pollution harming the swamp environment. So you have to ask yourself which are you willing to take on? Poisoned water or toxic air?
In Louisiana we used to cut the cane in the fields then burn the leaves off, now we use the same style combine cutters as shown in this video for the last decade or two
@graveyardshift6691 I mean the ground could be different and I am no expert, but I can't really imagine, that letting the fields regenerate without burning could be worse, also this is florida in the USA, they don't care about the run off and damage done by pesticides.
What it really comes down to, is that the goverment would need to help farmers invest, something that the government isn't willing to do, all it does is sell nature parcs to create golf places.
@@prpr8904 And frankly that's a good thing the government is not involved. While it may have worked in Brazil, when has the Government getting involved in ANYTHING ever worked out well in the US?
Surprisingly you're missing a part of the puzzle there. Florida has a lot more wetlands than most states and given that for the last 40-60 years there's been increasing regulations on what you can and can't do with land within or adjacent to wetlands. This was done in an effort to 'save the wetlands' because of how important they are from a ecological standpoint. For a state that is majority wetland, runoff regulations are likely more stringent than in other states where there aren't as many.
Because of that, the use of pesticides in Florida is likely far more heavily regulated then other states in an attempt to use negative reinforcement to find alternative means of pest control. Hence burning.
Behold, the Government getting involved in one aspect of ecology makes another issue more problematic. The more ecologist activists try to clamp down on 'saving the planet' the harder it is for farmers to even farm as they get caught in ever increasing catch 22s. This in turn often causes farmers to quit and guess what happens when they do?
Ever heard of the 'Food Desert' problems in NYC as a result of social activism and Government intervention there driving restaurants and markets out of business?
@@graveyardshift6691 Honestly your argument of unwanted plant matter leaving different effect on the soil is mind boggling. Soil in Brazil and Florida are both in tropics, which both have problems with preservation of moist in soil. For the sake of argument, you can't grow sugar canes in swamps and therefore swamps in Florida has the same zero effect as rivers in Brasil on the moisture of the soil. The issue with South American red soil is not that much a lack of moisture but lack of organic matter, as it is basically soil of flood sand of former sea. I don't have agrocultural speciality, but from my farming that I am doing, I hardly imagine that there is too much excess of organic matter for Florida farms - the organic matter would be simply used by whatever is growing there - and in the sugarcanes case it would only add some extra suculentness to sugarcanes, given that by the harvest time all fo that farm land would be dried up anyway.
I'm not really sure about pest issue, that was mentioned in video - I can only guess that burning removes them and they are not processed, while pesticides might be still used both in Brasil and Florida - modern farming is simply impossible without pesticides - if you don't use them crops are going to be dead - and not necessary from critters but from various diseases. The main issue with burning might be that the pesticides might be spreading with smoke.
This looks amazing, the down side is that most of the production go overseas and the brazilian population have to pay much higher prices.
I live in the interior of northeastern Brazil and I have worked in an sugar cane alcohol destilary and here ALL industries burn the sugarcane and use manual labor in the harvest.
Eu acho que é devido a geografia do local. Pelo o que a milha vó falava, a queima era para facilitar o trabalho dos trabalhadores, devido o pelo e a palha que corta.
Ps: vinha vó era cortadora de cana. 😅
Isso aí já implica em governo, políticas de modernização, velhas elites açucareiras, simplificando o buraco é mais embaixo
I saw the video title and came here to say that as someone that lives in Brazil in a sugarcane area, they burn the fields all the time.
I dont think so. I also live in SP inland and it has diminished a lot in the past decade. This weekend is happening a lot of fire and burning farm areas, but those are unintentional fires, not because of the crop itself, but for the dry and hot period of the year and criminal fire setters
I guess technically they don't have to, but they still do🤣
Unfortunately SP isn’t the only producing region on the country, Recife also has a big concentration of sugar producers, and some of those farmers don’t have enough infrastructure/tech to stop burning. It’s not a solved problem and it’s not better than the US, but still, we shouldn’t discard our advances.
Also, missed opportunity by business insider to talk about the “Capitanias Hereditárias” and the “Pinga/Cachaça”, smh
It's a fraction of what it was many years ago, this comment is so stupid
@@viniciusbueno4226 These illegal fires are financed by farmers with massive swathes of land for the explicit purpose of illegally taking more land. Agricultural conservatism is a c4nc3r.
The shift needed in Florida is simple: free trade. The industry largely exists because of protectionist US trade policy, which has been challenged successfully in the WTO and as a result the US is under retaliatory trade sanctions. But the US refuses to comply, because of lobbying.
We face the exact same situation here in Tucuman, Argentina. As long as the sugar mill's owner make money, they don't care about anything else.
The majority of sugarcane producers in Brazil still set their fields on fire! Just to make it clear. São Paulo should help other states from Brazil to implement these new tecnologies! Greetings from Rio.
Not by volume. Sao Paulo produces more than 50% of Brazilian sugar cane, and so, assuming all producers in other BR states do burn, it is about 50-50.
it happens in Sao Paulo too. the law is in the federal level, not from the state. if a farmer is not following the law it has nothing to do with Sao Paulo.
A questão é que muitos produtores de cana não querem (ou não tem dinheiro) para investir nessas máquinas. E inclusive, muitos dos trabalhadores em situações análogas à escravidão trabalham nesses canaviais.
Yes. It's as easy as looking at Google Maps. Many sugarcane farms in Sao Paulo - Brazil have signs of burning in the images of its fields, even this year.
Yes. It's as easy as looking at Google Maps. Many sugarcane farms in Sao Paulo - Brazil have signs of burning in the images of its fields, even this year.
I’m an intern at in a company that sells agricultural aircraft. This year, we visited a sugarcane farm, and the farmer had been working in the field for over 50 years. He said the same thing-there are pros and cons to not burning the fields, and one of them is having to use more pesticides to control pests. Besides, burning the fields is illegal. Nowadays, most crops go straight from the farm to the mills for processing.
If you drive through the roads in the interior of São Paulo, you’ll see endless sugarcane fields, and the roads smell like sugarcane. Where there isn’t a plantation, there’s an ethanol mill
Orgulho do meu Brasil a 504 anos plantando cana de açucar🇧🇷🇧🇷
Piada mesmo. Enquanto isso, países desenvolvidos produzem tecnologia de ponta. Brasil em 500 anos só foi uma cadela internacional.
@@F00000x ate 1889 enquanto o Brasil era monarquia rivalizava com Eua, desde la foi so ladeira a baixo
As a brazilian that works in a Sugar power plant, today there are biological pestcides that have a much more lower impact im the environment, theses biological pesticides are in early development an there is a a lot to improve. As today sadly we cannot switch fully to it. But from my point of view there is no way to justify the burning of crops.
As a Brazilian, I'm proud and happy to our country being recognized beyond the stereotypes of Carnival (most promiscuous party in the world) and Soccer (another futile thing). I hope that one day Brazil will be equally recognized for its warm-hearted people, rich culinary traditions, and breathtaking natural beauty.
Also martial arts, MMA, BJJ, ... .
its sh**hole country
I appreciate the Brazilian hospitality particularly those outside of Brazil. Who does not like a good Mocequa?’ However 48% of household not having a hook up to to a sewer line is deplorable. Worse yet is rivers of sewage running down the street. These reports are made by Brazilian themselves and stated in Portuguese. Injustice permeates Brazil. Of which, you are not to keen to acknowledge.
Cara, o carnaval existe em todo o mundo cristão, e o futebol existe em todo o mundo.
Acontece que o Brasil é muito bom em futebol e tem uma tradição enorme de carnaval.
O que o Brasil certamente não tem é a rica tradição culinária.
There're also huge engineering companies such as WEG, Embraer and Aeris
Just a point to make it here, Brazil still burns a lot of fields, it has been almost a month since we are pretty much breathing polluition
Well, you do get what you vote for and Florida folks are voting for this.
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You guys should revise the "whitout burning fields" affirmation. Sugar-cane farmers are burning fields accross Brazil and we are suffocating from the smoke.
São Paulo é um dos únicos que proibiu o fogo e essa lei vale até 2030, então só as grandes usinas estão de acordo com a lei, algumas menores ou em outros estados ainda fazem essas queimadas, principalmente em estados com muita representação da bancada do agro. Não vão mudar tão cedo enquanto tiver tantos políticos financiados pelos grandes usineiros e proprietários de terra.
Quem ta fazendo isso é o PCC e os terroristas do MST, para de mentir.
As a brazillian, im happy that things are taking a turn for the better on how sugar cane is harvested, but in the northeast, the region which produces the most of sugarcane throughtout Brazil still burns most of the fields, specially on the south region of my home state, Pernambuco
Here in Brazil, we are experiencing one of the worst wildfires in history
fazuele, e fogo do anor😅😅
@@qapsuporte
Fogo financiado pelo próprio agronegócio que vocês tanto defendem.
Wild ????? Esse fogo é colocado com objetivos bem óbvios
I'm from the northeast region of Brazil, in my city there are still sugarcane burnings, the sugarcane field is quite remote, the only thing that changes the color of the sunlight and causes burnt straws to fall, fortunately as this could be more harmful to the residents. I hope this changes soon, although it would put a lot of people out of work.
Real estate disclosure package should have stated that there are burning sugar cane fields downwind in the winter. Sue the seller and real estate broker.
😂😂😂😂 Sugar built that town. Not having a clue is the buyers problem. And those are paid people to complain.
@@jasonrod4523 Its still a legitimate complaint. Would you like it if you basically couldnt breathe outside for several weeks at a time?
@@jasonrod4523 "People" like you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
In Brazil we have the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) they are the responsibles for all the advances and biotechnology responsible for the success of Brazilian agriculture.
The "without burning fields" part hits a little different as I look out of my window in southeast Brazil and only see smoke. Air quality is the lowest ever, it hasn't rained in 120 days (a 60 year record) and fires (including four agriculture) are everywhere.
- So interesting. Florida needs to get up on it. 😊
We should just remove tariffs on sugar imports and let these farmers compete on an actual free market. See if they survive or keep burning
yes and cut the subsidies. less sugar in our diets would be great as well. people's palates would adjust . and stop putting ethanol into gasoline
That makes total sense considering the cost of labor and production are universal…😂😂😂😂 say more stupid things.
@@ronblack7870 Octane boosters in gasoline have an interesting history. It would seem internal combustion engines need higher octane than petroleum-only gasoline can provide. Ethanol happens to be (maybe) the best compromise of octane boost.
I just saw a video about geothermal energy becoming more practical due to using high energy drilling to vaporize rock instead of using metal drill heads. Wouldn't it be great to be able to drill straight down to cleanly harness the nuclear heat energy wherever its needed? No more need for ethanol fuel.
In the Philippines, we dont burn our fields unless it was accidentally burned. The sugarcane will spoil in 2-3 days worse when it rains.
We have varieties that are not heavy in leaves and self-thrashing.
Although this is a success story from Brazil, If you enter any news website during winter months (like today) you Will see that fire is still used A LOT around here. However, these fires are used to "clean and renew" grasslands for cattle, which is also the main cause for the Amazon Rainforest destruction. Usually the moisture from the Amazon rises up, is blocked by the Andes Mountains and brings rains to South East Brazil (like São Paulo). However, these past days It is bringing only smoke. The Air is almost unbereable in some regions because of this. And it's getting worse and worse
those are unintentional fires, not because of the crop itself, but for the dry and hot period of the year and criminal fire setters
Wonderfully relieved to see smoke continuing all over Florida - of course done without fines and ignored in Davos.
Not alone, seen similar pics of North India, where New Delhi is cloaked in smoke fog in winter, & vehicles blamed!
On merchant ships worldwide, smoke over 2 minutes ca immediately attracts black listing and fines.
News today here in S.Paulo/Brazil: "30 cities burning, 7 highways closed due to fires set on sugarcane fields "
those are criminal fires or unintentional due to dry and hot period of the year, nothing to do with the crop process
@@viniciusbueno4226 for criminal or unintentional fire, they tend to happen frequently after harvest season. When I lived further inland, between july and september the city would be covered in soot and the air became nigh unbreathable when the wind blew eastward. A weird coincidence, no?
@@JK4m3r0n yeah as you said, it tent to happen a lot in the past. But, at least for the last decade that became very, very uncommon. Last time I saw a fire like that, bringing all that ashed stuff, was ages ago, I can't even remember, but during childhood it was like 10 times per year
@@JK4m3r0n The purpose of these fires is different, though - it's to illegally take forested land to grow their crops. Also, the livestock industry (pecuária) wants to illegally increase pastures as well.
@@Gabu_Not the case with the current fires in São Paulo There is video of arsonists deliberately setting the fields on fire. Likely paid to do so by the farmers. As the video explained. No fires means more pesticides and Brazil has weak pesticide legislation and even weaker enforcement. Pick you poison. Pesticides in your sugar and water or smoke in your air. This issue is not as binary as people assume.
Cane farmers in the state of Queensland, Australia, have been harvesting cane with this method for a number of decades now.
Though, some farmers might still burn prior to harvesting.
Cane must be harvested and processes quickly after burning as burning apparently does damage to sugar content in the stalk.
ethanol production is a funny thing
started doing it because yeah it seems like its cleaner than gasoline on paper
now that its been studied more, turns out it just straight up isnt, it actually pollutes more than gasoline due to its production chain
Depends on what the production chain is like tho. If youre producing it and you don't care how its made like the example in the video then yeah, ofc it'll just be as bad, but if you regulate the whole process you'll get the same results as in Brazil where you can only sell ethanol if you produce it without burning the fields! Regulation is necessary as producers will always chose the easier and cheaper way out!
@@gilzineto those parts do matter, but clearing fields to make room for farm land, using so much land for farming, refining and transporting, they all have an environmental impact
@vincentgrinn2665 compared to the environmental footprint that exploring oil fields, refining and all the logistics involved?
@@gilzineto surprisingly, yes
the full life cycle emissions of ethanol is 24% higher than gasoline
exactly, guess what fuel is used by industrial machines and trucks
So burning and not burning both have their pros/cons. I'm wondering what new pesticides and chemicals are introduced for the non-burning method and how much of it gets into the actual sugar.
funny watching this video as a bunch of intentionally wildfires are happening all throughout the state i live, in Brasil :C
I'd just like to do a small addition about the Sao Paulo State law that bans burning sugarcane fields. Many cities passed local laws which banned burning the fields about 10~15 years ago.
I lived in a city in the early 2010's where burning the fields was prohibited, but the neighboring city didn't have a similar law back then, so we kind of ended up suffering from our neighbors burning their fields anyway. Around 2015, most of the cities around where I lived had local laws prohibiting burning the sugarcane fields.
Here in Brazil, all gas stations have at least 3 types of fuel: Gasoline, diesel and Ethanol.
Ethanol is cheaper, cleaner and generates more power in the engine, which can increase by up to 30%.
Most cars here can be refueled
with gasoline and ethanol.
Incorrect, Ethanol has 30% *LESS* energy than Gasoline and while most cars can use a 10% Ethanol/gasoline blend, to get the same performance requires increasing the fuel flow into the engine.
ethanol lowers range by about 30%, so it really isn't cheaper per kilometer than gasoline most of the time. the power increase is nowhere near that much. it's usually about 8%
@@TheHuntermj but it also cost less. What he meant is that ethanol gives more POWER to the engine, not more energy.
@@GraveUypo also, the main deal with ethanol is that it is a carbon neutral fuel, unlike gasoline. All the carbon that is emitted during production and use in the engine was captured by the sugarcane while it was growing
@@MrVitorao It only gives more power to the engine if the engine is specifically tuned for it, which involves increasing fuel consumption. And the savings are far less than the cost of the extra fuel you burn.
in brazil they actually do a lot of burning fields, specially on sugar cane, without surveillance :)
waiting for the comment "As a brazilian..."
I'm a brazilian
As a brazilian, I am also waiting for such comment.
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Em todo vídeo que fala sobre o Brasil, acontece isso, enche de macacos br falando besteira sobre o país, invés de deixar os estrangeiros comenarem!
Always great to see Brazil as exemple!
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Modern technology is increasingly developing❤
So you answered the question about why the US burns the fields. They don't want ethanol replacing gasoline.
Ethanol is garbage and that's a fact. It is inefficient, corrosive and does not produce the mileage or horsepower of gasoline and diesel. Educate yourself
Horsepower is higher on ethanol, as it's a more efficient combustion. Mileage is marginally lower, but technology has evolved a lot in the past decades
Just think for a minute and ask yourself: If ethanol was to replace gasoline around the globe, what would happen to the remaining pristine forests (Amazonia for example) on Earth? In this same video is mentioned that, in the state of S. Paulo alone, the area used for sugar cane plantations increased by 5x since the establishment of the incentives for ethanol production, an increase of area obtained by the destruction of large areas of pristine natural forests and ecosystems. This is the exact same reason why Humanity can't become fully vegetarian without destroying what remains of the natural environments of the Earth.
No we produce the most ethanol, almost twice as much as #2 Brazil and we use it for fuel. Stop being hysterical.
America and Brazil are the largest ethanol producers in the world, what the hell are you even talking about?! Also, it doesn't have to be sugar cane based - corn and beets are popular too.
8:00 is is the Burning, my mother has BRONCHITIS and it suddenly stopped being such a pain for her every year after the sugar burning stopped in our region in São Paulo inland (our city is rounded by sugar cane fields).
Farming must not go this beyond. There are several ways to deal with this where there's no need of burning and pesticides. If we take care of land and soil rest of the things takes care of crops. We shouldn't forgot it's out duty to feed other being as well in this nature. Let the pest enjoy subtle part of the farming. That's fine.
If you were a farmer you would know nothing is black and white. there are way more variables to farming than you know. letting pests enjoy the fruits of your labor is pretty much unacceptable, that's money coming out of my wallet.
Brazil's energy is the greenest in the world.
The sugarcane smoke was some of the best smelling smoke ever.
Brazil's sugarcane harvests absolutely depend on fires. This video happened to come out on our worst wildfire season of the last decades
This is the way to go
Proud of Brazil, very unsurprised about Florida. I see it all over the place in America whether it’s the choices of individuals, companies or the government - The additude is “Why should I stop making money just because it’s causing harm to other people?”
You can already tell that the ere is no interest in processing sugar like Brazil because the oil companies will loose money
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So, did you miss the part where the US makes almost twice as much ethanol as Brazil, and most of that is from corn? There isn't much for big scary oil to worry about. Also, Florida produces less than half the sugar Brazil does, so even if ethanol production from sugar were maxed out, it would be about 4 Billion gallons. The US uses about 300 Billion gallons of oil per year, so one percent of it coming from sugar wouldn't exactly be a game changer for any oil company. US oil production domestically is 255 Billion gallons of oil, making it the world's largest producer of oil.
If they want to reduce pests, they need to increase diversity and incorporate crop rotation. Its great they are covering the soil with plant matter.
Trading CO2 for pesticides
Props to the team for attempting to pronounce "José" closer to the lusophone pronunciation and not assuming we speak spanish.
The economics of the US and Brazil are very different. This article also doesn't talk about total carbon footprints. Or the inpact of the additional pesticides required. Incomplete or even miss leading reporting.
Brazil do have one of the cleanest energy production of the world. What about carbon footprints?
@AthosRac The additional chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides they mention. Most are petrochemical and produced outside Brazil. What's the total impact end to end?
Additional pesticides only, if you burn the soil you require much more fertilizer actually so you end up wasting money in that regard
Amazing good method. The soil keeps getting better with the added nutrients.👍
but the ag lobby lady said that it will hurt the plant. smfh
Did nobody in this comment section saw the video?
No, the soil doesn't get more nutrients. When the plants are harvested the nutrients get out of the soil, if you leave the leaves you just give back some of the lost nutrients (so you need to add less between harvests). The soil gets "better" because of the added organic matter (wich the soils in Brasil lack).
Florida Is a different case because the soil already have a lot of organic matter, so adding more ends up being a problem.
The problem here lies un that for Brasil green harvest altough more expensive since it needs pesticides gives better soils, so it ends up note costing that much more. In Florida you have the added cost without the benefits.
WATCH THE DARN VIDEO
Brazil is currently facing massive wildfires and I've seen most people blaming sugar farmers for starting it
No, it's mostly criminals setting fire on the environment
Use the leaves for mulch !
😮Florida burns its sugar plantations? I’m from Brazil and it’s astonishing! This problem in Brazil is so 1980’s and 1990’s.
Wow, finally something positive has been said about Brazil.
"Without Burning Fields"
I'm brazilian and y'all live on wonderland.
They said that the farmers have until 2031 to end the burn so it is a gradual process and it will take time but at least some steps are taken were in the USA you have big lobbies spending millions to block any change.
the price of a sugar cane collector is around 500k USD per unit. Case IH and John Deere are players on this market. But each year they have new models with upgrades. On the region I live, we see they work on the fields. a 2 man crew could buy and pay the mortgage of a collector within 1 year of work, but the crew works 24/7 on the 2x harvest per year.
Most sustainable sugar industry: BRASIL 🇧🇷
I hope the Philippines will follow suit
Big Brazilian agricultural companies have high environmental standards, I´m glad it is starting to be recognized. By the way, Brazilian Ethanol could change the world dependancy on oil, way cheaper and much cleaner.
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No, in Brazil, there are lots of farmers in the countryside of São Paulo state, Pernambuco state, Bahia state, and Mato Grosso state burning their fields right now. This happens every year, just come to here between July and September and you will see.
i'm from Pernambuco and work in the sugar cane industry, and thats true, most of the fields here are still burnt, but the problem is that those big harvesters that can cut the sugar cane whitout the burning don't work on fields with hills and thats the large majority of the fields here. We have special harvesters that can pick up the burnt and cut canes and put them on trucks, they are called "carregadeira bell".
In 1975, brazilian government started the program "Pró-Álcool" (Pro-Ethanol) and in 1979, some cars started to run only in Ethanol, not in 2000's. In 2000's was the Flex-fuel program, when cars started to run with Ethanol or Gasoline according with owner's choice.
Floridian big businesses: we burn things all the time in the open, but our smoke is harmless, we promise!
What do they think they are burning, a pile of bullshit?😂
Lovely, im brazilian however illegal fires are very often and the government does not inspect the fields. So yeah the technology is there, we made it happen and a lot of people insist in not applying.
with that please search "Ribeirao Preto fires" its happening literally right now.
Gotta love the one sided 'reporting' on this. Pesticides = good. Releasing particulates = bad.
Maybe we should just stop all sugar subsidies so that a glass of sugary soda is more expense than a glass of orange juice. Might not be a bad thing.
From India, Largest Sugarcane Producer, I have never seen farmers burning 🔥 sugarcane fields. They burn Rice & Soyabean stalk.
Also, India started Ethanol Production from Sugarcane. That's why no to little sugar surplus & export.
News this week here in Brazil: "30 cities burning, 7 highways closed due to fires set on sugarcane fields "
Due to criminal and intencional fire