date:Jun 21, 2012
Syngenta sugarcane business director Daniel Bachner said that China's increasing demand for sugar is one of the drivers of the company's investments in innovative sugarcane planting technologies.
The plant, which is located in Itapolis in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, features a new technology which is expected to increase sugarcane production by 10% to 15% per hectare.
The company expects the annual sales of this new technology after 2015 to reach $500m in Brazil and plans to launch it into China i