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Zero Tillage: Why the Grass Is Greener on Brazil's Side PDF Print E-mail
2007 - February 2007
Written by Bernardo Esteves   
Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:52

Zero Tillage: a Brazilian green revolutionBrazil's large farms have long pioneered a green cultivation technique that boosts growth. Now its small farmers - and possibly the rest of the world - are following suit. The method is called direct drilling, no-tillage or zero tillage (ZT). The technique is in part praised for fixing carbon in the soil, thereby reducing the amount of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas - released into the air. It also prevents soil erosion and therefore demands less irrigation.

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Very much a revealing article of the truth....finally !
written by ch.c., February 15, 2007
- Brazil did not invent the ZT, but UK did first and then further developped in USA ! Just read every Brazilian articles pretending Brazil was the "inventor" of this technique ! Lies abound everywhere....in Brazil !
- In the same thousands of Brazilian articles, published all over the world, it says that Brazil has by far the most hectares in ZT and other countries start to copy the brazilian ZT technique..
Looks like another Brazilian lie and cheating as per the above article, as the USA have more hectares in ZT than Brazil.
- Curious conclusion for Africa for crop residues and cattles. Has Brazil not the largest herd of cattles ?????? smile
- And if ZT is so good for the soil why has Brazil 100 millions hectares of degraded and unprofitable pastures and "only"
25 millions hectares in ZT ????????
- Interesting to know also that a German and not a Brazilian promoted ZT originally in Brazil. Another truth explained differently in the Brazilian propaganda for ZT !!!!!!!!

Conclusion : in my view Brazilians exagerate the reality and the truth a little bit too much and lie a little bit too much !
And Brazilians caress their navel much more than they should, and they do it by lying and hiding and cheating everyone !

Hmmmmm......Brazilian mentality will never change !!!! So they are !
Ch
written by Savy, February 15, 2007
Why so much hate? What happened to you by a Brazilian that makes you automaticaly critisize Brazil? I don't understand why people wake uo, go to the blog and think they know something about Brazil. Now look at the article. It simply states that Brazil has ADOPTED ZT, there is no claim they invented it. It also says the US and other countries have adopted it.

Another Brazilian lie? What would the motivation be to lie. The President of the US lied and there was a war that has killed thousand...now that was a whopper.

"And Brazilians caress their navel much more than they should, and they do it by lying and hiding and cheating everyone ! "

What the heck does this mean?

Who really cares about ZT and Brazilian soil anyway, if you get so worked up about this silly article there must be something very wrong in your life. Have a nice day.


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written by Ric, February 15, 2007
Large rice farms south of Chico, California have been using this technique for generations. One of them sent an associate to northern Brazil in the early 1970´s. The California farmers use this field method and other natural methods to produce brown organic rice which is healthier. Also demands a premium price.

What the Californian found interesting was that in order to produce rice that was less perishable and was what Brazilians like to eat, all the brown coating on the rice is ground off (farelo), leaving a hard white kernal which has almost no food value compared to the brown kernal which has lost only the skin. Naturally it takes different machinery to accomplish this.
Remember: It is all about making money
written by Osvaldo Coelho, February 15, 2007
Pioneering a technique -any technique- is developing such technique and empolying it massively. Let me give you an example: Defunct USSR invented a lot of technology realted to pouktry and handed them out to Cuba. Cuba could not develop that into mass market. Brazil took those technologies and developed and pioneered them.
Inventing something, or taking the pure3 science approach, may give you some glamour and bragginf rights and even tghe odd Nobel Prize. The rewards of such effort, is takne by the ones who pioneer the technicques and develop them into mass markets.

Remember: It is all about making money. No one would dispute the high level of technology of the UK but if we think agriculture, we don't think the UK. The UK invented a lot of things, we are thankfull for them, but they are not exactly good at that, say footabll, or cricket, or Lawn tennis...
Fools!
written by Old one, February 16, 2007
These Brasilians are fools. They dont understand that they will fail in whatever they do. Atleast they should realise it, after visiting this site, and reading the comments posted by ch.c.

God has sent ch.c for the Brasilians. Stupid Brasilians dont realise it.

All Brasilians should be made to visit Brazzilcom every hour. They should be slapped on their asses, and made to read what ch.c has written by each passing hour. (Women should be made naked, while reading ---right ch.c?) .

All those who dont do the needfull, should be sent to iraq to die.

Lula should order to combine all comments oc ch.c and give it a form of a text book, and it should be included at all levels of education in Brasil. Thereafter wait.....keep visiting this site..for future advise from ch.c...... mercy..god has sent him to brasil...let no words of his go waste...
Dumb
written by GTY, February 16, 2007
Hey Ch,C, I see you have added a new name uder which to post...have fun "Old One".
To Savy !!!!!
written by ch.c., February 23, 2007
You just demonstrated how little your readings are !!!!
I did not say that Brazil pretend to have invented ZT in the above article, but in hundreds and probably thousands of other articles !!!!
They are published ALL OVER the places.....just surf the Net !

Thus I dont hate Brazilians, I love them in fact. But Brazilians just exaggerate everything
they do or invented.
The same could be true for the flex fuel engine, the pride of Brazilians ! right ??????

Sorry, the invention was made by BOSCH, a German company, that even get an award and recognition from the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology !!!!!!!!!
And when you read in many Brazilians articles that the invention was made by Brazilian engineers....it is simply another lie.....as usual !
innovation
written by j.o.h.n.n.y, March 03, 2007
The japanese did not invent the VCR but they certainly did innovate it. A good idea is a good idea, doesn't matter where it comes from.
Flex Fuel by Bosh ? Really?
written by cricri "guest", May 04, 2007

De curiosidade fui olhar estes sites ai embaixo pra verificar se eu achava algo patenteado pela BOHS a respeito de sua invencao da tecnoloiga Flex Fuel. Talvez eu nao siaba procurar, mas acredito que se for memso invencao da BOSH, ela ja teria patenteado. Ou nao? Brasileiro exagera e os estrangeiros quando vem aqui percebem o qunato!!!! Maiores exportadores do mundo disso e daquilo....E a agricultura mais competitiva do mundo...Realmente e um exagero. Quant mentira nisso smilies/wink.gif
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/search-results.html?search=BOSH&imageField2.x=11&imageField2.y=14

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/search-results.html?search=Flex Fuel ethanol &imageField2.x=12&imageField2.y=13 smilies/cheesy.gif smilies/cheesy.gif

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