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- Title
Bioetanol de la caña de azúcar.
- Authors
Aguilar-Rivera, N.
- Abstract
The viability of the Mexican sugar industry is a political imperative. Sugar is Mexico's largest agricultural industry. Sugar cane is the first largest cultivated crop, supplying raw material to over 57 mills located in 15 states. The current inefficiency of the Mexican industry and the advent of increased production, displacing domestic sugar used in soft drinks; and the government issued a large number of import permits thus allowing large quantities of lower price world sugar like HFCS to enter the domestic market. All together these factors contributed to crisis of sector. The industry should be restructured and downsized to be competitive producing ethanol (EtOH), like the easiest ways to increase the predominate alternate fuel and the opportunity to make the Mexican sugar cane future a reality. If the ethanol (EtOH) is produced, it's possible to see a growing role for renewables in the Mexican's energy future, the factories sugar must involve them as partners in the continued expansion of ethanol production and use in México, export opportunities, increase public awareness of ethanol's benefits and create an economic climate for ethanol's expanded use. The flexibility of production of sugar and ethanol at the factories will allow a role for ethanol to be used to achieve the nation's clean air goals. The most important opportunity for sugar cane industry is to continue to reduce ethanol production costs through genetic engineering, feedstock diversity using whole sugar cane and technology improvements.
- Subjects
MEXICO; SUGAR industry; ALCOHOL; SOFT drinks; PRODUCT costing; DOMESTIC markets; AGRICULTURAL industries; AGRICULTURAL chemicals industry
- Publication
Avances en Investigación Agropecuaria, 2007, Vol 11, Issue 3, p25
- ISSN
0188-7890
- Publication type
Article