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Agricultural cultivation of sugarcane includes planting, crop treatments, the alternative mechanization for planting, harvesting and hauling, the recovery of the straw, and the agricultural management. With the perspective of the increase of cultivated area of sugarcane, a lot of alterations should happen in the agricultural sector. The expectation is that sugarcane burning will complete stops and green harvester will reach 100%, at least in the areas where mechanization is feasible, in the first stage (2015) and later in the whole area (2025). That will force the complete mechanization of sugarcane cultivation. New equipments for sugarcane harvesting is today in development and the perspective are that in 2015 they will be in use in experimental areas shifting some paradigms of sugarcane planting, harvesting, loading and hauling. It is expected that great part of the area planted with sugarcane in 2025 will uses this new mechanization concept that reduces drastically the negative impacts on the soil caused by the conventional system of cultivation.