Adecoagro to buy Brazil Caarapó sugar mill
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Adecoagro S.A. agreed to acquire the Caarapó sugar, ethanol and energy mill in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul from Raízen Group for an estimated R$760 million (about US$148 million), payable in cash at closing, including the mill’s owned sugarcane and sugarcane supply agreements.
During the 2025/26 harvest, the Caarapó mill processed approximately 3.5 million tons of sugarcane. It can produce sugar, hydrous and anhydrous ethanol, and renewable energy, and is located about 100 km from Adecoagro’s Angélica and Ivinhema mills, to be integrated into its regional Sugar, Ethanol and Energy cluster.
The company states it expects the asset to be accretive to Adjusted EBITDA from day one and to grow crushing volumes with limited incremental investment. Completion is subject to approval by Brazil’s CADE and other conditions and is expected before October 1, 2026, after which Caarapó will be incorporated into Adecoagro’s Sugar, Ethanol and Energy business.
Adecoagro currently owns 210.4 thousand hectares of farmland and produces about 3.1 million tons of agricultural products, 1.3 million tons of fertilizers and over 1 million MWh of renewable electricity across Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
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