Sugar cane

SUGARCANE: AN INCREASINGLY RELEVANT CROP AT CAMBUHY

The sugarcane crop is recent at Cambuhy Agrícola but already occupies nearly 40% of its production areas, with impressive results in terms of yield, representing a 57.2 percent increase above the average for the state of São Paulo. In this sector, Cambuhy is a sugarcane supplier, and therefore its activities range from establishing nurseries and stands in the field to overseeing harvest, which is carried out by the industry. The activities carried out by Cambuhy are detailed below:

– Sugarcane nurseries [implementation of variety banks – pre-sprouted seedlings (PSS), nursery management, multiplication/replication of varieties];

– Planting (furrowing, closing of furrows, quality distribution of sugarcane billets);

– Phytosanitary control of stand establishment and production areas (monitoring of pests and diseases, chemical control applications, release of the biological control agent Cotesia flavipes);

– Cultural practices in the stand establishment and production areas (fertilization and soil amendment, weed management, management and maintenance of the sugarcane field);

– Harvest quality monitoring (harvest control, quality monitoring, harvest loss assessment).