Tropical Sugar beet

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Tropical Sugar beet

• IFAD, Rome, November 08, 2007
• Dilip Gokhale

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Tropical Sugar Beet (TSB)Oncoming Revolution in
global Sugar, Ethanol and Alcohol production
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Paradigm to Reality

• For the past two centuries, ever since Napoleon
  brought sugar beets to North Europe, beets are
  for temperate climates and cane for tropics
• After 11 years of research, Syngenta has
  developed varieties that give the same quantity
  sugar per land unit (ha or sq meter) as cane in
• - Half the time and
• - With one third the water
• The key is the choice of right genetics,
  cultivation practices and development of farmers
  capability
• TSB will enable national Governments enormous
  flexibility to increase or decrease sugar,
  alcohol and ethanol production in five to six
  months

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TSB Economic Agronomic Aspects

• High yielding
• Tolerant to high temperature
• Performing on saline and alkaline soils
• Drought tolerant
• Excellent in rotation with most other crops
• Water saving
• An Industrial crop ready to be processed when
  the factory needs it. Just In Time!

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Imperial valley, California
High yield equal to 130 M.T /ha with 16.5 sugar
content under extremely Hot conditions with
temperatures of 40 c.
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Kenana, SudanBeets sown under a period with a
daily max. temp. of 40 degrees C
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A Greenhouse
40 c

• The good soil-cover creates a suitable climate
• High temperature above however,
• Lower temperature near the ground
• More CO2

30 c
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Excellent growth
Dongola, Sudan 5 months old beet
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• High yielding
• Tolerant to high temperature
• Performing on saline and acidic soils
• Drought tolerant
• Excellent in rotation with most other crops
• Water saving
• An Industrial crop ready to be processed when
  the factory needs it. Just In Time!

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Saline lands at Sangli, India
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Ugar, India Yield 100 MT / ha. after partial
land reclamation
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Ugar Sodic soil, not reclaimed. Yield 50 MT/Ha
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TSB A New but Adapted crop which is

• High yielding
• Tolerant to high temperature
• Performing on saline and alkaline soils
• Drought tolerant
• Excellent in rotation with most other crops
• Water saving
• An Industrial crop ready to be processed when
  the factory needs it. Just In Time!

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Landslide in California
Drought tolerance due to the deep root system
Opening the way down to the moisture for
following crops in the rotation
0.1 M.2 M..
Sugar beet tap roots
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Dongola, Sudan Two months without irrigation
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Ugar, India reasonable good crop with 30 cm top
soil
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TSB A New but Adapted crop which is

• High yielding
• Tolerant to high temperature
• Performing on saline and alkaline soils
• Drought tolerant
• Excellent in rotation with most other crops
• Water saving
• An Industrial crop ready to be processed when
  the factory
• needs it. Just In Time!

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Water saving
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Tadla, Morocco.
15 M.T. / ha of of white sugar with a total
water consumption of 600 mm / ha Saving of 10
Mio litres of water / ha
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TSB A New but Adapted crop which is

• High yielding
• Tolerant to high temperature
• Performing on saline and alkaline soils
• Drought tolerant
• Excellent in rotation with most other crops
• Water saving
• An Industrial crop ready to be processed when
  the factory needs it. Just In Time!

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With total N-deficiency during the last two
months the beets are ready for harvest.
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Sagar Sugar, Chittoor India

• Likely to commercialize TSB in India
• Govt. will finance two small trial factories of
  100 M.T. / day capacity to go on stream in 1st
  quarter 2007
• Two other factories considering investment

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Harvest at Sivarami Reddys plot Sugar content
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Peru, Latin America
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Nanning, China
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KIRIITA Agricultural Self Help Group
Kenya Excellent TSB crop in six months at 2,600
m. msl where sugarcane requires 24 months
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Familiar landscape in future with Syngenta TSB
Trial at Coimbatore, India Coconut, sugarcane, ba
nana and TSB all co-existing together
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TSB opportunity is global
Based on evaporation transpiration, brown and
yellow are suitable for TSB
TSB span 30 N to 30 S.
Next , China, Brazil, Australia, U.S. / Mexico
First wave, India, Colombia, RSA
Source FAO
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Benefits to farmers
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• Economic benefits

• Annual net income
• /farmer

• 2,170

• 88

• 1,160

• Tropical sugarbeet

• Sugarcane

• Other benefits

• Ability to use saline/alkaline soils unsuitable
  for any other crops
• Increase in soil productivity for next crop
• Change in cultivation attitude/behavior require
  enhanced crop management including crop
  protection

• Challenge

Based on an exchange rate at 1 INR
43.54 Source Syngenta trial data on sugarbeet
Syngenta executives
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TSB cultivation has significant benefits for
society and governments

• Save water _at_ 10 Mio liters / ha

• Additional land for food production

• Benefits to society and governments

• Reduction of environmental carbon

• Flexibility to increase /cut production
• of sugar in short time

• Use saline soils, otherwise fallow

Source Sugarbeet expert interviews Syngenta
trial data on TSB Syngenta executives
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TSB cultivation has significant benefits for
industry

• Benefits

• Improve asset and manpower utilization / reduce
  cost

• Beet molasses is eco friendly

• Economically beneficial by products

• Disadvantages

• Unlike cane, TSB does not generate own power

Source Sugarbeet expert interviews Syngenta
trial data on TSB Syngenta executives
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TSB is the most land / time efficient crop for
sugar / biofuels
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India TSB projects

• The first project of HAPPY worth INR 250
  million started operating at 500 TCD capacity
• Machines indigenously developed through SS
  Engineers and MOJJ Industries
• In 2006-07, farmers (1795) had planted 1525 acres
• The company has share capital from 12,296 small
  farmers
• Commenced production of Ethanol in June, 2007.
• Fresh planting of 300 acres completed for 2008

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Happy India, aerial view
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Happy India, arrival of beets
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Happy India, processing of beets
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Happy India, processing of beets
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Happy India, processing of beets
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Happy India, distillery
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Samarth Coop Sugar factory pilot plant

• The second project, Samarth pilot plant at Ambad
• Promoted by Union Minister of Agriculture and
  President of Vasantdada Sugar Institute through
  Samarth SSK funded by Sugar Technology Mission
• Planted 125 acres (50 ha) during 2006-07 -
  Commenced production in April, 2007
• Machines indigenously developed through NHEC for
  100 TPD capacity
• Planting for 2007-08 initiated 25 acres
  completed

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Samarth Coop Sugar factory pilot plant
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Samarth Coop Sugar factory pilot plant
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