From 2007 to 2017, the Agro‐Environmental Protocol of the Sugar and Energy Sector was in force, an agreement between sugarcane mill owners and the State Government of São Paulo, Brazil, proposing to eliminate sugarcane burning as a method to facilitate the harvest. Simultaneously, the sugarcane harvest was becoming widely mechanized while, under the interests of capital accumulation, the mills were entering the information and communication technology era and providing the agricultural processes with more precise and immediate management and technological controls, similar to those implemented in the mills' administrative and industrial operations in the 1990s. Short‐term factors, including environmental factors, favoured sugarcane technological changes. As a result, there was a mass layoff of rural workers and an increasing number of people/workers in agricultural mechanization, transportation and maintenance of machinery and administrative as well. The whole process highlighted the differences between mills, resulting in small and medium sugarcane farmers and mills to become the most impacted, in operational and financial terms, by the accelerating mechanization of the sugarcane industry as a whole.

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甘蔗最新技术变化对巴西圣保罗州的环境，社会和经济影响

从2007年到2017年，《蔗糖和能源部门的农业环境议定书》生效，这是蔗糖厂所有者与巴西圣保罗州政府之间达成的一项协议，提议消除蔗糖燃烧作为促进收成的一种方法。同时，甘蔗收割变得越来越机械化，而在资本积累的利益下，工厂进入了信息和通信技术时代，为农业过程提供了与工厂类似的更精确，即时的管理和技术控制在1990年代进行行政和工业运作。短期因素，包括环境因素，有利于甘蔗技术的变革。结果是，农村机​​械工人大量裁员，农业机械化，机械的运输和维护以及行政管理人员/工人的数量也在增加。整个过程突显了制糖厂之间的差异，导致中小甘蔗种植者和制糖厂在运营和财务方面受到整个甘蔗产业机械化进程的最大影响。