date:Aug 15, 2018
ing on quickly with farmers, threatening the survival of cane mills they once supplied.
About 60 cane mills have closed in the past five years in Brazils center-south cane region. About 270 that remain open must fight harder than ever to secure cane supplies.
Agroconsult, an agribusiness consultancy, said it has received requests from mills to calculate the premium they will have to pay producers to keep them from switching to grains.
Douglas Duarte, a director at the Londra mill in Ita whic