Brazil: Small-scale blueberry growers get seedlings

About 90 small growers are on the list of farms that will receive blueberry seedlings. This number of beneficiaries may have doubled by the end of the year, according to an estimate by Ruy Rodrigues Santos Filho. He is part of a group of soybean planters and exporters who have set up a small grower support fund to spread the planting of this fruit, which offers growers good prospects of profit. Blueberries are widely consumed in the United States and Europe as they are rich in antioxidants, vitamins and fiber, whose properties help to improve cardiovascular health, ...