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 Brazil.
After 20 years of being behind US in soy export Brazil with honors surpass US becoming the #1 exporter of Soy in the world in 2007, and also the #1 exporter of coffee, orange juice and beef.
Since the president Lula released the law that says Brazil has to mix 5% of Biodiesel in regular Diesel by the end of 2012 many small farmers from northeast are harvesting Castor Oil and Jatropha to sell for Biodiesel refineries.
The incentives for planting for Biodiesel production are enormous, some refinery are buying the harvest of 5 years in advance and there’s a chance of this small cooperatives of farmers to get some money out of the Kyoto’s Protocol too.
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing Greenhouse gases that cause climate change. It was agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the treaty when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005.