Brazil has up to 100 million hectares of degraded pastures, says Fávaro

The Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, said that the country has between 90 million and 100 million hectares of degraded pastures, of which 40 million can be incorporated into the agricultural production system. With the recovery of these degraded pastures, said the minister, the country can double its grain and fiber production capacity without cutting down trees. He made the statements this Wednesday (12), at "Invest in Dignity", an event organized in Rio de Janeiro by the Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII), a non-profit organization supported by the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Fund (FIP) and 30 global companies. "If we produce grains and fibers on 78 million hectares and much of that in two harvests in the same year and the same hectares, this means that we can double Brazilian production capacity without cutting down a single tree", stated the minister. The plan is linked to the "National Program for the conversion of degraded pastures and sustainable agricultural ...