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Quissama, Rio de Janeiro State 1. Various of sugarcane cutting 2. Tractor planting sugarcane 3. Men digging and checking on state of recently planted sugarcane. 4. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Helio Riscado da Silveira, Farmer "This is an area where cattle grazed. I removed them because of the good prospects of the international market for ethanol and I planted sugarcane instead hoping it will be more lucrative in the future". Campos - State of Rio de Janeiro 5. Various of sugar-ethanol mill 6. Various of sugarcane entering mill for grinding and juice extraction 7. Distillery 8. Sugarcane juice enters fermentation tanks 9. Fermentation produces bubbles and movement of ethanol 10. Ethanol being loaded on truck 11. Researcher at Rural University in Campos shows sugarcane plant. 12. Researcher shows two different types of sugarcane. (The thinner variety was developed scientifically and contains more sucrose than the traditional kind) 13. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Paulo Brum Maia, Rural University of Rio de Janeiro "Here we can observe the difference in diameter. This is an old kind of cane. Caiana cane. This one is an RB variety" (More sucrose content)." 14. Lab with young sugarcane plants where new varieties are being produced. Quissama, Rio de Janeiro State 15. Various of sugar cane harvest 16. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Luis Eduardo Crespo, President Rio de Janeiro Sugarcane Producers Association "We have some very positive qualities, we have many areas to expand sugarcane without the need for deforestation or causing environmental effects. We have available areas in the savannah. Here in Rio de Janeiro we have the potential to almost double the sugarcane area in harmony with the environment" Rio de Janiero (city) 17. Set up Professor Marcos Pedlowsky, UENF University (State University of Northern Rio State) 18. SOUNDBITE : (Portuguese) Marcos Pedlowsky, UENF University (State University of Northern Rio State) "Certain products are being pushed toward the non occupied agricultural frontiers and the frontier that is left in Brazil is the Amazon, so the changes that are occurring in the centre-south and northeast will push certain activities like cattle and soy to the interior of the Amazon". Campos 19. Street with cars in Campos 20. Car filling tank with Ethanol . One car is labelled "Flex Power" meaning it can use any mixture of Ethanol and Gasoline 21. Ethanol (Alcohol) pump LEAD IN : A joint report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says that the growing use of cereals, sugar, oilseeds and vegetable oils to satisfy the needs of a rapidly increasing biofuel industry is one of the main drivers in increasing high commodity prices. The report released earlier this week (July 4), looked at the 2007-2016 period and found that increasing amounts of maize in the United States, wheat and rape seed in the European Union, and sugar in Brazil, will be used for ethanol and bio-diesel production. Brazil is the world's second-largest producer of ethanol in the world after the United States, but is the No. 1 exporter. STORYLINE : Biofuels, which are made from corn, palm oil, sugar cane and other agricultural products, are viewed by many as a cleaner and cheaper way to meet the world's soaring energy needs than greenhouse-gas emitting fossil fuels. The report, an annual 10-year assessment of global commodity markets, says that increasing amounts of crops grown for ethanol and bio-diesel production, is putting pressure on agricultural land and resulting increasing food prices. In Brazil, annual ethanol production is projected to double by 2016 from today. After grinding the cane all liquid is removed. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a48fec81d4be04abb637ae74a3cc5856 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork