Angola : Angola to Start Producing Sugar, Ethanol in 2010.Byline: shiv03 Brazilian industrial giant Odebrecht will start producing sugar and ethanol ethanol (ĕth`ənōl') or ethyl alcohol, CH3CH2OH, a colorless liquid with characteristic odor and taste; commonly called grain alcohol or simply alcohol. in Angola next year in a bid to revive To renew. For example, revival is the act of renewing the legal force of a contract or debt, either by acknowledging it or by giving a new promise, when the contract or debt is no longer a sufficient foundation for a lawsuit because it is barred by the running of the Statute the African nation's once-prosperous farming sector, devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by three decades of civil war. Odebrecht said it had partnered with Angolan state-owned oil firm Sonangol and private company Damer in a joint venture, Biocom, to invest $220 million in a project it hopes will help steer Angola away from its oil dependence. The African nation rivals Nigeria as the continent's biggest oil producer and is dependent on oil for almost 90 percent of its income. The project will be the first major investment in sugar and ethanol production in Angola in decades. "We will start production in 2010 and reach cruise speed by 2013," said Humberto Rangel, director of communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. at Odebrecht Angola. The joint venture will farm sugarcane on 30,000 hectares of land in the Malange province, about 400 kilometres east of the capital Luanda. A processing plant will produce 260,000 tonnes of sugar and 30 million litres of ethanol per year. The fibrous fibrous /fi·brous/ (fi´brus) composed of or containing fibers. fi·brous adj. Composed of or characterized by fibroblasts, fibrils, or connective tissue fibers. parts of the sugarcane and the heat from the machineries will also be used to produce 47 megawatts of electricity, Rangel added. Angola was a top coffee, banana banana, name for several species of the genus Musa and for the fruits these produce. The banana plant—one of the largest herbaceous plants—is said to be native to tropical Asia, but is now cultivated throughout the tropics. and sugarcane exporter before a 27-year civil war after independence from Portugal in 1975 led to a mass exodus of farmers to the cities. The country now relies on imported food to satisfy most of its needs, which has helped bolster inflation to close to 14 percent and also contributes to making Luanda one of the world's most expensive cities for foreigners Foreigners alienage the condition of being an alien. androlepsy Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation. gypsyologist, gipsyologist Rare. . Angola is the latest African country that has granted land to companies for non-food crops, a trend that has raised fears in rural communities all the way up to the United Nations. The United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization warned recently that the private and foreign ownership of African farmland could threaten access to food, water and other resources. Angola has no law for regulating biofuels production. Odebrecht holds a 40 percent stake in the Biocom joint-venture. It is also building highways, hotels and dams in Angola and holds a stake in the country's offshore oil Block 16. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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