Due to the new road and growing income, many local farmers plan to expand the scale of their tea gardens and plant more economic crops such as macadamia nuts, bananas and sugarcane, he said.

NEW YORK -- San Francisco-based young fashion brand Allbirds Inc which makes shoes and apparels with sustainable materials like wool, eucalyptus tree fibers and sugarcane, is seeing expectation-beating sales in China by integrating online and offline sales.

Bioethanol is commonly made from biomass such as corn or sugarcane, which is mostly used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline.

After the US, Brazil is the second-largest bioethanol user in the world with sugarcane as the raw material.

Trucks loaded with sugarcane from Laos completed entry procedures at the Mengman port on the China-Laos border in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, earlier this month, marking the beginning of cross-border transport of sugarcane between the two countries during the 2022-23 season.

Sugarcane has played a major part in agricultural economic cooperation between China and Laos.

The monthly analysis report attributed the revision to lower sugarcane output in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the country's major sugar manufacturing base.

The company has tried to turn various sustainable materials, including wood, bamboo, rice-based plastic and sugarcane plastic, into toys.

The report warned of the possible impact of weather conditions on the sugar output as recent cold waves have affected the growth of sugarcane in the south.

SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador, which established diplomatic ties with China last month, is eyeing China's consumer market, hoping to find a niche for its agricultural exports, including premium coffee and sugarcane, a local official has said.

The Central American country is looking to expand its sugarcane exports to China after starting shipments last year, while introducing new products such as honey.

Coffee and sugarcane, El Salvador's top two products, together generate nearly 400,000 jobs in the country, which has a population of 6.5 million people.

The loans helped the group to mobilize about 500,000 farmers to grow sugarcane.

"The customized financial services ABC provided to our group strengthened our support to poor sugarcane farmers.

We hired more poor farmers to work at our sugar refineries and built a stable relationship with poor sugarcane planters by placing orders (for their produce)," Jiao said.

ABC also offered unsecured loans, which are issued and supported only by the borrowers' creditworthiness, to qualified rural households after verifying the list of sugarcane planters provided by the Yangpu Nanhua group.

With the loan money, he rented 0.53 hectare of land to plant sugarcane.