Of the 26 Brazilian states, nine have semiarid areas, where rain is rare and
irregular. However, these states produce a variety of foods that range from
fruit, corn, beans and sorghum, to cattle, sheep and goat milk.
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Quite Laughable....the headline !!!!! written by ch.c.,
July 13, 2007
What Africa and Brazil are using to......, prepare the land, seed planting, grow and harvest their agriculture !!!!
Monsanto/Bayer/Syngenta....for seeds and fongicides spraying, Caterpllar/Komatsu or the likes for land levelling, John Deere/Massey Fergusson/ Claas and the likes for tractors and harvesters !!!!! And also FOREIGN TRUCKS......for transportation !!!!!
LAUGH.....LAUGH....LAUGH..... !!!!
OTHERWISE....Brazil and Africa would still use a plough....and cattle for traction and power !!!!!
Ohhhhhh....but they still use that....TODAY ! Eeven in Brazil Just look by yourselves at the videos in Globo Rural TV !!!!
How many hundreds millions tons of sugarcane is s till....MANUALLY....harvested...IN BRAZIL ???? 200 MILLIONMS TONS !!!!! YESSSSS 40 % OF ALL SUGARCANE IS STILL MANUALLY HARVESTED IN BRAZIL....JUST LIKE 2 CENTURIES AGO !!!!
And what is your guess of how many tons are still manually harvested in ....the USA ??????
Lets face it, without the developed world technology and knowledges......BRAZIL is still FAR FAR BEHIND !!!!
Please name 1 Brazilian Trucks/cars manufacturers ! NONE EXIST ! simple As to your second class tractors, they are made from developed nations technology !!!! the new ones are made in developed nations !
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Some of the titles.... written by bo,
July 13, 2007
to these articles are quite humorous. They make it sound as if Brazil has pioneered everything from medicine to space travel. It's all to get a response.
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... written by Ric,
July 14, 2007
The other day I tossed out a whole shelf full of agriculture books, most of them printed by the USDA or State dept., every conceivable subject on wells, cisterns, avoiding mofu in the humidity, drip irrigation, fertilizer, nitrates, plans for making pumps, delivery systems, some of these books well over thirty years old. Many in Spanish and Portuguese.
Literally thousands of these subjects are still available free. But the trends are away from small subsistance farmers all over Brazil, and toward mechanization, capitalization, and organizati
the only thing that is shrinking is the food to feed there own people
How true,skipper.brw, where the hell is our mutual friend, the Half Hispanic American.? Do you think that the sharks ate him in the Pacific Ocean?
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Cautionary Comment written by Ric,
July 18, 2007
Just don´t call him a half breed. That´s a now rarely used extremely offensive term, considered a slur. Just trying to provide info here.
When I was a kid the adults used it frequently but thankfully it has pretty much passed from the vocabulary.
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... written by ali,
July 22, 2007
we have liquid chelated fertilizer. Anyone intrested please contact.
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Good information written by Robert L Birt,
August 18, 2007
I welcome this information and want to know more about farming in Brazil.....Is it possible to get water with deep drilling and pivot irrigation In the areas covered in this report? Thanks for any information for a future investor in Brazil
Of the 26 Brazilian states, nine have semiarid areas, where rain is rare and
irregular. However, these states produce a variety of foods that range from
fruit, corn, beans and sorghum, to cattle, sheep and goat milk. 
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Monsanto/Bayer/Syngenta....for seeds and fongicides spraying, Caterpllar/Komatsu or the likes for land levelling, John Deere/Massey Fergusson/ Claas and the likes for tractors and harvesters !!!!!
And also FOREIGN TRUCKS......for transportation !!!!!
LAUGH.....LAUGH....LAUGH..... !!!!
OTHERWISE....Brazil and Africa would still use a plough....and cattle for traction and power !!!!!
Ohhhhhh....but they still use that....TODAY ! Eeven in Brazil
Just look by yourselves at the videos in Globo Rural TV !!!!
How many hundreds millions tons of sugarcane is s till....MANUALLY....harvested...IN BRAZIL ????
200 MILLIONMS TONS !!!!! YESSSSS 40 % OF ALL SUGARCANE IS STILL MANUALLY HARVESTED IN BRAZIL....JUST LIKE 2 CENTURIES AGO !!!!
And what is your guess of how many tons are still manually harvested in ....the USA ??????
Lets face it, without the developed world technology and knowledges......BRAZIL is still FAR FAR BEHIND !!!!
Please name 1 Brazilian Trucks/cars manufacturers ! NONE EXIST ! simple
As to your second class tractors, they are made from developed nations technology !!!! the new ones are made in developed nations !