> Muda Cana Program: Orplana & Solidaridad

Solidaridad, an international NGO facilitating sustainable supply chains and Orplana, an organisation representing and organising sugarcane producers in Brazil and abroad, joined forces to develop the Muda Cana programme.

Innovation
This nomination comes from the Muda Cana Programme’s aim to ensure the profitability of producers through innovative training, which helps the producer and technician to make more profitable and sustainable choices. The training focuses on pre-sprout seedlings, agricultural defences, nutrition, soil preparation, systematisation, to help increase the current production level in an sustainable way.

> Northern Agro Services Ltd

Bangladesh-based Northern Agro Services produces organic crop-based balanced fertilisers and NPKS fertiliser. 

Innovation
Northern Agro Services’ recent ground breaking innovation is its fertiliser for sugarcane. The nomination indicates this fertiliser has been shown to improve yields by 36%, in line with the company’s ethos to provide farmers with technologically sophisticated sugarcane fertiliser, that exceeds a crop nutrition needs and reduces use of chemical fertilisers.

> Ingenieria y Refineria San Martin: Tabacal Agroindustria

Argentina-based Tabacal produces sugar, alcohols, bio-fertilizers, biofuels, bioelectricity, food and energy. 

Innovation
Tabacal prides itself on producing these products in a sustainable way, which honours the environment and the people with whom they work. To further improve the sustainability of their production, Tabacal has undertaken an initiative to further reduce waste in their production, improve efficiency, and reduce chemical inputs. This initiative included expanding the mill’s crush capacity, constructing and deploying a dual distillery and molecular sieve, improving organic compost processes and the development of biological pest management solutions.

> ReduSa: Raízen

Raízen is Brazil’s main manufacturer of sugarcane ethanol, and one of the world’s largest exporters of sugar to the international market, with approximately 4.3 million tonnes of sugar produced annually. 

Innovation:
The ReduSa programme is Raízen’s latest innovation supporting sustainable sugarcane, which reduces Raízen’s water use in its 26 sugar, ethanol and energy production units.

Through innovative approaches to each element of production, over the last three years, the ReduSa initiative has saved 9 billion litres of water and achieved an energy reduction equivalent to 89 million kW through the reuse of hot water.

> Nucane^TM Low GI Sugar: Sunshine Sugar

Australian company Sunshine Sugar produces raw and refined sugar products in New South Wales.InnovationSunshine Sugar is based in New South Wales, Australia and produces raw and refined sugar products. Sunshine Sugar has been nominated for their unique low GI sugar that applies no additives in the manufacturing process, nor is any additional processing involved. This innovation makes it possible to control and contain the beneficial elements that naturally occur in the sugarcane plant growth cycle through to the final crystalline sugar product. This innovation makes low GI easier to produce, and more cost effective for the end consumer.

About Bonsucro Global Week Sponsor ACT Commodities

ACT Commodities has partnered with Bonsucro for the Bonsucro Inspire Awards 2019.ACT works with Bonsucro members to facilitate Bonsucro Credit purchases between certified sugarcane mills and companies, creating value through simplicity for all parties involved. In turn, this helps them with their strategy, operations, marketing and translating the impact of their action from the producer to the end customer.