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Brazilian agriculture: The miracle of the cerrado
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Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi:
The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 396 no. 8697 (Aug. 2010)
,
page 55.
Topik:
Brazil
;
Agriculture
;
Farms
;
Cerrado
Ketersediaan
Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi)
Nomor Panggil:
EE29.62
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IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in this part of the cerrado (Brazil’s savannah). Native shrubs later reclaimed some of it. Now every field tells the story of a transformation. Some have been cut to a litter of tree stumps and scrub; on others, charcoal-makers have moved in to reduce the rootballs to fuel; next, other fields have been levelled and prepared with lime and fertiliser; and some have already been turned into white oceans of cotton. Next season this farm at Jatobá will plant and harvest cotton, soyabeans and maize on 24,000 hectares, 200 times the size of an average farm in Iowa. It will transform a poverty-stricken part of Brazil’s backlands.
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