An expected increase in ethanol demand in Brazil, boosted by the country’s economic recovery and a new programme to raise biofuel use, will initially be met by fuel produced from corn. Ricardo Tomczyk, who heads Brazil’s newly created National Union for Corn Ethanol (UNEM). There are no cane fields available in Brazil currently. A company would take some four years to form a new cane field ready for production,” Tomczyk said, adding that in the case of corn-based ethanol, it would be a matter of building the plant, which would take around a year and a half.