Soyland is in Brazil
Brazil is the world’s top beef, coffee, and orange juice exporter and is racing to surpass US farmers in overseas soy markets. But the clear-cutting and tree-burning to make way for huge farms threaten...
View ArticleBiodiesel – The green petroleum – part 1
The new market that uses renewable fuel is favorable to the environment and open doors for small farmers. But it is still necessary to balance between risks and opportunities.After had provoked a...
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Understand the main oleoginosas used to make the vegetable fuel. Soy » the use of this grain is interesting in the current conjuncture on account of the great offer, but have only 20% of percentage of...
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Açaí – the super fruit
The açaí palm (pronounced [asaˈi]) is a member of the genus Euterpe, which contains 7 species of palms native to tropical Central and South America, from Belize south to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly...
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Brazil’s climate good for Biofuel
In the benefit of having a wonderful climate, Brazil has the perfect environment to offer for farmers to produce grain in great scale, that’s why many investors and producers from abroad are moving to...
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Rising world food prices
Food prices have risen sharply in recent months driven by increased demand and global warming has played a significant role in another driver of rising prices: the shift in agricultural production from...
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Production of ethanol in Brazil grows 6.15%
The Union of Industry Sugar cane (Unica) reported this Monday that until the 1st day of June, the production of ethanol grew 6.15%, however the entity is reviewing the forecasts of the 2008/09 season...
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Corn hits 7th consecutive record
The price of the food The future of corn and soybeans traded on exchanges in Chicago (CBOT) ended on the rise, driven by the floods in the Mid-west U.S., conditions that threaten the predictions of...
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