Claim · model-written summary
Without yield gains, about 4.5 million hectares of cultivated area expansion would be required for sugarcane targets.
- Taxon
- sugarcanet0
- Outcome
- cultivated areae1
- Value
- 4.5 million hectarese1
- Qualifier
- if no yield gain is achievede1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirection
Verbatim
t0“sugarcane production”
e1“if no yield gain is achieved, an expansion of 4.5 million hectares of cultivated area will be required to reach those targets”
Title
Guilherme Martineli Sanches; Ricardo de Oliveira Bordonal; Paulo Sérgio Graziano Magalhães; et al. Biosystems Engineering 2023. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.03.013
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Average sugarcane yield should increase from 76.2 to 122.4 Mg ha −1 by 2030 to keep cropping areas stable.
- Intervention effect Yield increase could reduce sugarcane production costs by 26% compared with the current scenario.
- Intervention effect Yield increase could reduce sugarcane greenhouse gas emissions by 14% compared with the current scenario.
- Observation Site-specific management alone is not enough to reach the necessary sugarcane production by 2030.
- Recommendation Strategies to increase sugarcane production are necessary, through site-specific management or cultivated area expansion.
- Recommendation Precision agriculture technologies are a win-win strategy to promote sugarcane yield gains and reduce production costs.