Mercosur consolidates as leading soybean region with 52% of world’s production

Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 05:07 UTC

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In twelve years Mercosur has consolidated as the leading region in soybean production with 52% of the world crop and the potential to further expand area and yields. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
88mt out of a world total of 183mt (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/agr_pro_soy-agriculture-production-soybean)
. . . . falls a bit short of half, and well short of the production claimed by Argentina (this article),

[For some reason, Argentina/Mercopress is claiming Bolivian production is part of Mercosur]

but the four individual nations that form the tight trading bloc of soy suppliers should be congratulated on turning over so much land to this productive weed.

Across the length and breadth of Brasil, low growing dense forests - 'heavy cerrados' - is being ripped out to plant the weed.
And the 'light cerrados' is bulldosed away even more easily.

So much for biodiversity-protection and the balanced maintainance of the Brasilian forest and central South American 'savanna' environment.
Sep 17th, 2011 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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geo
Cargill ' s synthetic gene seeds !!
Sep 17th, 2011 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Malvinero1
You have any more good ideas geoff?
Or the usual put down,to anything Argentinian??
Sep 18th, 2011 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Hi Malv.
Yes, one good idea is to make Mercosur *really work*.
Another is to keep Bolivia apart from Mercosur.
Another is to keep Venezuela away from Mercosur.
Another is to review the relative development of CAN and Mercosur in 5 years time, to select the best developed model of the two, and see if the two trading blocs can be brought together using the best developed model.
Another is, once the protocols for Mercosur are fully developed, fixed in stone, and proved to work - then and only then, consider bringing post-Chavez Venezuela into the mix.

Trouble is, in five years time these countries may not be so much in charge of their several and joint destinies.

Work hard, Malv., to get your people (wherever you live) working actively and positively to make Mercosur WORK.
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