The president from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, participated in the closing of the “International Conference on biofuels”, in Sao Paulo (Brasil) Photo: EFE.Â

The alimentary crisis is due to the speculation in financial markets, in raw materials, and of the oil industry; the ethanol and the biodiesel, combine growth with environmental development, but also with social responsibility.Â

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, exempted the biofuels today of any responsibility in the world alimentary crisis, that attributed to the speculation in the financial markets and the raw materials. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The Brazilian ethanol, derived from the sugarcane, will be the official fuel from 2009 of the Indy Formula, one of the most important motor racing of the world, according to an agreement signed on Monday in the framework of the International Conference on Biofuels.Â

The Understanding Memorandum was signed when being inaugurated the “Primera International Exhibition of the Biocombustibel”, parallel to the conference, between Alessandro Texeira, of the Brazilian Agency of Exports Promotion (Apex) and the president of the Indy Racing League, Terry Angstadt. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-Brazil will be headquarters of an International Conference on biofuels next week, in which it will promote its sugarcane bioethanol, its main contribution in the segment of the renewable fuels.Â

Representatives of up to 40 countries will attend the encounter, that will last a week in Sao Paulo, and is foreseen to have ministerial level. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will inaugurate it on Monday.Â

Brazil is the biggest world exporter of ethanol and the second producer, behind United States. Leer más »

The next leader has a plan for the rural communities of his country. Here, the main points. Â

The elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, and its co-equiper, vice-president Joe Biden, are already working in what they have denominated the “Plan of Support to the Rural Communities.” Â

To guarantee economic opportunities to the establishments of family nature is one of the objectives that heads the list of the next leader, according to his platform. Leer más »

Studies by the investigators Yong Gu (left) and John Vogel on the wild grass Brachypodium is revealing genetic information that could be useful in investigations of the grass Panicum virgatum as raw material for the biofuel.Â

A small and short herb called Brachypodium distachyon (also known as chirate or wall grass) could accelerate the discoveries on the grass Panicum virgatum, its famous cousin that has much potential as a raw material for biofuels. Leer más »

BIOFUELS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BUENOS AIRES.Â

Specialists of the renewable energy sector analyzed here the future of a business in expansion.  Â

During last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was carried out in Buenos Aires, for the second year in a row, an important conference, organized by the British firm Green Power Conferences, that had as strategic partners to the Argentine Chamber of Biofuels and to the Argentine Association of Biofuels and Hydrogen, and the support of the IICA, of the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, the INTA, the INTI, Chancellery, the Exportar Foundation, the Agency of Investment Promotion, AAPRESID and ACSOJA, among other entities. Leer más »

Embarked on the genetics export to Venezuela and in the search of new markets for the meat production, Unitec Agro doesn’t discard the possibility of other businesses, as the milky production with New Zealand.Â

With a strong presence in the north of the country, with fields in Chaco, Formosa and 12 years of existence, Unitec Agro Corporation is a company that doesn’t get tired of investigating and advancing in new projects. Reason why a month and a half ago Unitec Bio got started, the arm of the company that produces biofuels with soya oil, located in Terminal 6, Rosario. Leer más »

Rocchia Ferro says that the energy and the biofuels are the future of the sugar sector. Alperovich´s enthusiasm.

IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE. The shares of the industrial sugar bowls aim to reach a price of $70 per 50 kilos bag.Â

In the tucumano sugar sector two realities cohabit. On one hand, the industrials complains because the price of the sugar doesn’t allow them to obtain profitability, in spite of the measures that were adopted so that through banks the financing of what was left of the harvest 2008 was done, in order to level the offer and demand of the product in the internal market. On the other hand, relating of the industry get ready with strong investments to participate in the business of the electric power cogeneration and of the biofuels production. Leer más »

Barra Bonita, Brazil (Reuters) – The ethanol biofuel industry of Brazil would invest near 33.000 million dollars up to 2015, said on Tuesday the Association of the Cane Industry (Unica) of that country, while the fuel demand grows as an alternative to the gasoline.Â

The production of ethanol derived from the sugarcane has grown in constant way in the last years and it is forseen that it will increase almost a 20 percent only in the lapse 2008/09, because the flexible fuel cars that work only with ethanol, now dominate the sales of new cars in this quick growing nation. Leer más »

The Brazilian ethanol contaminates less. Picture: AFPÂ

The OECD says that it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%

PARIS (AFP). – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)Â highlighted, last Wednesday, the positive impact of the Brazilian ethanol, based on sugar cane, on the environment, since it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%. Leer más »