Oilseed rape, millet, pulses and sugar cane are among the crops to be investigated.
In Brazil, he will be talking about ethanol production from sugar cane and global trade talks.
In 1936, he began to distill alcohol from sugar cane juice along with his three sons.
"Sugar cane was the single hardest hit followed by plantain and bananas, " the report says.
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Brazil is a pioneer in the use of ethanol made from sugar cane to power cars.
He cited the U.S. subsidies for corn-based ethanol and tariffs on sugar cane-based ethanol from Brazil.
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Smoke from the burning sugar cane painted the ancient city of Luxor below with an eerie haziness.
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An experimental fence is guarding a field of sugar cane, which elephants like as much as alcohol.
Brazilian sugar growers are helping to finance another new project, to sequence the genome of sugar cane.
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Yet the state still gives water away free to farmers, who grow such thirsty crops as sugar cane.
For dessert, a sublime ice cream studded with sugar cane fudge is a calorific killer but hard to resist.
Sugar cane and beets are 6-8 times as productive for ethanol as corn.
The same thing is happening on the sugar cane side, and sugar prices.
The community is using their new land to grow bananas and sugar cane.
It had its own blacksmith shop, sawmill, a sugar cane and molasses mule-drawn mill, and we didn't want to see that lost.
Past fields of sugar cane and a network of narrow irrigation ditches, a narrow pass leads to a flat area surrounded by hills.
In contrast, ethanol derived from sugar cane has return on energy invested of roughly 1.8x, while using switchgrass gets you 5x.
The sugar cane is grown on a Panamanian estate founded by Don Jose Varela Blanco in 1908, after emigrating from Spain.
Children sell sugar cane, produce, and potable water while women carry goods from market to market selling products along the way.
Sugar cane occupies only 7m hectares (17m acres) of Brazil's farmland (and only about half of the crop is distilled into ethanol).
It meanders from wealthy beach communities on the Atlantic Coast through rural sugar cane fields all the way to the Gulf Coast.
Hundreds of filling stations in Bangkok offer gasohol made with ethanol from sugar cane, helped by Thai tax breaks for ethanol production.
It is run by Paulo Arruda, a Brazilian who led a team of 200 people in sequencing the DNA for sugar cane.
Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.
All of the books, cards and paper are handmade using natural fibres such as flowers, sugar cane, banana leaves, cactus and coconut husk.
Sugar cane, which is planted in the summer, is a water-intensive crop and farmers may shift to other crops temporarily, industry executives said.
It aims to produce biobutanol (from sugar cane, in Brazil) for use as a fuel or fuel additive beginning in 2013 or 2014.
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The machines replacing the men who cut down sugar cane can already be seen in parts of the state of Sao Paulo and elsewhere.
Called C4 plants because they utilize a molecule with four carbons, plants that use this evolutionary trick include sugar cane, corn and other tropical plants.
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