One year after announcing plans to explore the feasibility of a setting up a multi-million dollar ethanol factory here, Ansa McAl is yet to find the right land space and the best soil and climatic conditions to plant sugarcane for the project.
The company said it was forced to turn its back on 40,000 hectares of land in the Canje Basin after its feasibility tests confirmed that the soil and rainy conditions proved the area useless for its project.
“100,000 hectares was put into consideration for an ethanol project subject to a feasibility study… In August 2012 that report informed us that the land in the Canje basin was not suitable,”
