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The difference between a sprouted bud and a pre-sprouted seedling is that the bud has not yet taken root to the point of forming a root ball and being taken to the field. Participants in the Sugarcane Feminine Noun technical visit followed the entire production line and the update to the MPB system. The Agronomic Institute (IAC) was a pioneer in the development of pre-sprouted seedlings (MPB). A new way of planting sugarcane that revolutionized the sector, enabling the formation of highly healthy sugarcane fields, renewing the varietal stock in a shorter time with more modern varieties and with greater productivity, in addition to boosting the Meiosi system - (Interrotational Method Occurring Simultaneously) which consists of planting rows of sugarcane interspersed with crops such as peanuts, soybeans, corn or green manure such as crotalaria - offering much higher rates of seedling multiplication. It all started at the IAC Sugarcane Center in Ribeirão Preto, SP, in 2012. The following year, the MPB system left the Center's research area and conquered the world. But in these 10 years, even with the success of the pre-sprouted seedling, IAC researchers have not stopped studying ways to make the system even more efficient. A new update of the MPB production system was announced by IAC researchers. Everything has been improved, from the production method to the introduction of the formation of the sprouted sugarcane bud. On June 30, a technical visit took place at the IAC Sugarcane Center, which brought together more than 50 participants, including rural producers and professionals from sugarcane-energy units. During the visit, researcher Samira Carlin Cavallari, head of the IAC Pre-Sprouted Seedling (MPB) Reference Laboratory Unit, and researcher Mauro Alexandre Xavier, director of the IAC Sugarcane Center and one of the founders of the MPB system, presented a step-by-step presentation of the production process and the innovations in the system. Check it out first-hand: