Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil's Cerrado to Our Planet
1 Shares On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one that the country’s agribusiness producers — especially soy growers and ranchers — had earlier dubbed MATOPIBA (a name generated by combining the first two initials of the four states it comprised: Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia). Both officialdom and elite agricultural producers viewed MATOPIBA as Brazil’s last great undeveloped agricultural frontier and a juggernaut of the nation’s commodities export economy. However, long before that auspicious date, these four states...
Source: brazzil.com