Medeiros' uncle mixes caipirinhas, a drink made with sugarcane alcohol, lime, sugar and ice.
What if we repealed the import duties, inviting ethanol in from sugarcane-growing nations near the equator?
Dow Chemical, in a separate project, already plans to make polyethylene from sugarcane ethanol in Brazil.
Indeed, since sugarcane is grown throughout the region, most Latin American countries could benefit.
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Several Caribbean governments hope that the ethanol boom could help revive their ailing sugarcane farms.
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Among low-lying fields, where the sugarcane had been heavily watered, mist rose and cool air enveloped him.
In Brazil, 28 percent of all rescued forced laborers from 2003 to 2011 came from sugarcane fields.
That demand can drive up price and sometimes cause scarcity during the inter-harvest period of Brazilian sugarcane.
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It would be easy for a visitor to mistake some of the sugarcane crops in Jeanerette from marshland.
Sugarcane, native to South and Southeast Asia, has been used since ancient times to sweeten food and drinks.
Flanked by green, leafy hills and overlooking sugarcane fields toward the turquoise Atlantic, the Tubagua Plantation Eco-Lodge has spectacular views.
Sugarcane is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 15% of export earnings.
Mr. NICHOLAS POPSOY: (Through translator) It won't be the best place, maybe, you know, just be made of sugarcane.
Joe owns 450, 000 hectares of pine forests, running from Jacksonville to Florida's panhandle, and former sugarcane groves near Miami.
Its cogeneration units produce 537 megawatts of electricity annually from sugarcane bagasse--enough to power a small city like Belgaum.
Medeiros' uncle mixes caipirinhas, a drink made with sugarcane alcohol, lime and sugar.
Sugarcane doesn't need as much fertilizer, and Brazil is close to the equator, so it soaks up more sunlight.
To supplement his family's income, Khodpe ran a small shop selling sugarcane juice.
"Cosan is now the world's first integrated ethanol company, from the sugarcane fields to the fueling stations, " says Martin.
Colombia now has five distilleries amid the sugarcane fields of the Cauca Valley, which produce 360m litres a year.
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We want to have the solution in Brazil that we can have sugar seats made from 100% Brazilian sugarcane.
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Joe owns 1.1 million acres of pine forests, running from Jacksonville to Florida's panhandle, and former sugarcane groves near Miami.
Publicly traded Cosan is one of the largest growers and processors of sugarcane and one of the largest producers of ethanol.
For the past three decades, sugarcane plantations have been spreading north and west across Brazil's hinterlands, replacing coffee, citrus and pasture.
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In Brazil Renuka has control over cane as it can undertake sugarcane cultivation-- Equipav owns 272, 000 acres (110, 000 hectares) of sugarcane plantations.
Much like America's undocumented workers, the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Burmese workers are ending up in sugarcane fields, garment workshops and construction sites.
Sugarcane cultivation has to compete with lucrative crops like rice and wheat.
Historically, the Barbadian economy was dependent on sugarcane cultivation and related activities.
Additionally, the growing and harvesting of sugarcane, historically done with slave labor, is considered one of the most problematic commodities in the world.
The Murkumbis planned to shift the mill to Munoli, a village in a sugarcane-growing area near Belgaum where they had secured a 100- acre parcel.
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