Earlier this week, the Brazilian government announced the declaration of a new federal reserve deep in the Amazon rainforest. The protections conferred by the move will ban deforestation, reduce ...

April 20 (Reuters) - Farmers in Brazil switched 300,000 hectares of agricultural land from sugarcane to mostly soybeans and corn in the 2021/22 season that ended in March in the world's largest sugar ...

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Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...

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Brazil's farmers had harvested 24% of the soy area through the end of last week, against 16% a week earlier and 9% in the same period last year, data from agribusiness consultancy showed AgRural on ...

SAO PAULO, April 20 (Reuters) - The area planted with sugarcane in Brazil, the world's largest sugar producer and exporter, fell to the lowest in 12 years in 2023 mostly because farmers switched to ...

Global soybean exporting giant Brazil has increased plantings of the oilseed for 18 consecutive years, a staggering streak ...