Sugarcane Harvest (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Sugarcane Harvest

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Unlike the US, Brazil uses almost all of the sugarcane plant for energy, extracting the sugar to make ethanol but also burning the leaves and stems to generate electricity.

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