His friends and family urged him to take his agronomy degree elsewhere, somewhere it would make a difference. But he joined Brazil's agricultural and livestock research agency (Embrapa) and relocated to the country's heartland, called the cerrado, where there was, at the time, little besides wooded plains, termites, and deer.
Embrapa then set out to prove that those soils could produce like the most efficient cropland of Idaho. The agency poured millions into research. It sent teams of scientists like Mr. Lobato to the American Midwest to glean as much know-how as possible.
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- bedeboop
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Yeah, I know. I was responding to bedeboop's teasing aside about her neighbor. Thanks for alerting me to the need to clarify.
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Hopefully these crops aren't terminator GM?
Or has Brazil already banned them?
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- AveryMoore
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I got some "special" seeds.
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They have a good hold on growing down there. They have been using sugar cane to make alcohol for gasoline mixture and have been for 30 years. They also have like five times more stations for this gas than we do, I know my numbers are wrong.
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they have internalized for their energy and are one of the few in world not dependent on oil. they burn their most plentiful resource,sugar
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I think you all would get a kick out of the site "The World Factbook" affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency for a quick assessment of the economies etc. of this world.
The Brazil/USA comparison in areas of GDP per capita and oil import export/ electrical usage are most revealing.
No mention of rain forest destruction--"Just the facts maam, just the facts".
I love Brazil, but I keep waiting for it to explode when--you know, the income redistribution thing and reasonable health care for the masses--sound familiar? "In the Sticks" Brazil is not even close to what we have medically--good medicine is for the tourist/big city settings.
But can they dance, sing and laugh...snort...damn drugs, when will we all learn people are supposed to be a little edgy--it's called clarity.-
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- WisconsinNorm
- 8 months ago
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Edson Lobato. Another man with a dream but on this occaision a man who has lived to see his dream fulfilled.
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- themanwithadog
- 8 months ago
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Not only is the USA dependent on energy, but from the looks of the Big GROCERY chains, ie, Walmart, Publix...WE have pushed out our Farmers and treated them like dirt (sorry for th pun) and now we are dependent on food that travels thousands of miles?
I will not buy some things, like from China due to all the scary stuff and that is all walmarts sells. I want us to bring our farmers back...the small farmers so we can buy locally. Some of us just are not good at backyard farming.My grandfather was so ahead of his time. As a child of the depression, He could squeeze more corn, tomatoes, beans cukes, squash etc. off his tiny land and would always donate to families, Salvation Army whatever was left over when he was ready to harvest again. He had little education, but fed his family and worked over 50 years in a cotton mill never missing a day. I am in awe of him.
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Folks like him are the backbone of this Country, they would not give these banks any money for a bailout. Lots of them kept their money in a sock.
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yep, they are a dying breed. He lived to be almost 100 (I say due to his diet). Couldnt afford meat except for special occasions. My fondest memories were spending summers with them and helping with the harvest...cutting the corn off the cob to blanch/freeze it. what an education for me. They never asked for anything, but if you needed something, they would try within their means to help you. And when they died, arrangements had been made for years. Did not want to burden anyone.
