Brazil is not only the largest producer of sugarcane, its also the first in the world in the production of sugar and ethanol. Thus, it increasingly expands in the foreign market with the use of biofuel as an alternative energy source. Responsible for over half of the sugar traded in the world, the country milled **3 million tons of sugar cane, resulting in *7.7 million tons of sugar and *7.5 million cubic meters of alcohol.