SAO PAULO, Brazil – Plans to pave a muddy road in the lower Amazon Basin should create a new soy boom in Brazil, but the increase in production could come at a potentially high ecological price – exposing the world’s richest tropical forest to destruction. In the Amazon, a stretch of dirt road roughly 1,000 […] Read more
Stories by Reese Ewing
Brazil to export huge hill of beans
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Brazil’s 2002-03 soybean exports are expected to grow 11 percent to a new record, while meal and oil shipments will expand but less ambitiously, says the Association of Vegetable Oils Industries, or Abiove. The world’s No. 2 soy producer and exporter should ship a record 17.2 million tonnes of soybeans in […] Read more
