which are unsuitable for mechanised farming. There is also the case of competitor countries using a sugarcane variety that matures fast. Most of these countries grow a variety that matures in 9 ...

His family has been farming in the area for generations – vegetables, fruit and, more recently, sugar cane. Over the years, climate change has made the weather more unpredictable and extreme, and ...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s biggest distributor of bio-fuels, is shifting research to waste from sugar-cane farming after ending an algae project in Hawaii. Shell, Iogen Corp. and Codexis ...