Sugaronline Editorial – Short-Sighted Policy Lets Maize Ethanol Imports Smother Brazil’s Northeast Producers By Bob Moser
17th January 2014
Topical, bold, outspoken, sometimes controversial, but always informed, Managing Director Meghan Sapp’s weekly Editorial gives you the stories behind the headlines ; an invaluable guide to the real sugar industry.
<p> </p><p>A tsunami of imported maize ethanol is driving sugar and ethanol industry leaders of Brazil's Northeast up the wall, renewing arguments that the federal government is suffocating the region's producers with short-sighted policy. But a combination of lingering drought effects, high production costs and inconsistent tax and import policy may have put Brazilian ethanol in
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