Brazil has 66.2% of its plant area protected and preserved
Soybean
Brazil
Published May 23, 2022
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33.2% of the entire Brazilian territory is preserved by rural producers. In 6 million rural establishments, 280 million hectares are preserved. 30.2% of the Brazilian territory has agricultural use. This was stated by Gustavo Spadotti Amaral Castro, General Head of Territorial Embrapa, in the framework of the Mercosoja 2022 congress. "In five decades, Brazil was able to create a sustainable and competitive model of tropical agriculture without parallel in the world."
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33.2% of the entire Brazilian territory is preserved by rural producers. In 6 million rural establishments, 280 million hectares are preserved. 30.2% of the Brazilian territory has agricultural use. This was stated by Gustavo Spadotti Amaral Castro, General Head of Territorial Embrapa, within the framework of the Mercosoja 2022 congress. "In five decades, Brazil was able to create a sustainable and competitive model of tropical agriculture without parallel in the world." The limitations that the country had in the 1970s, when it was a food importer, were removed. With research and development, the transformation of acid and poor into fertile soil, "tropicalization" of varieties such as soybeans and animals, development of a sustainable platform with direct sowing in more than 33 million hectares, for example, was achieved. If Brazil had the same productivity as in the 1970s, it would need more than 200 million hectares to produce the same amount of food. "It was not only achieved ...
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