Mills in Brazil Centre-South region produced 3.41 million tonne sugar in the second fortonneight of July, up 9.5% from 3.12 million tonne in the year ago period. Centre-South Brazil accounts for over 90% of the country’s total sugar output and mills in the region crushed 50.74 million tonne cane during Jul 16-31, up 2.6% on year. Between Apr 1 and Jul 31, mills have crushed 297.33 million tonne cane, down 4.7% on year. During the same period, they produced 17.57 million tonne sugar, up 3.5% on year. The Centre-South region also produced 11.57 billion ltr of ethanol during the period, compared with 12.88 billion ltr a year ago. Of the total cane crushed, around 48.4% was used for sugar production, while 51.6% was used to make ethanol.