Fazenda

As a fazenda (Portuguese for: cattle farm ), a large agricultural operation in Brazil is generally referred to. In general, cattle breeding in these large companies.

The Brazilian government awarded to improve the supply of meat and meat exports to the expansion of large areas of tropical rain forest on large landowners and foreign investors, which docked cattle ranches. For an extensive cattle farming large pasture areas must be created. To facilitate this, large areas are cleared by slash and burn. Then with aircraft tropical grasses seeded on the grubbing areas. In order to facilitate the regrowth of fresh grasses, slash and burn is repeated annually.

Because of thorn bushes, brambles and poisonous plants, crowding out forage grasses, new areas have to be opened up again and again. So there will be a massive deforestation. It is estimated that cattle on the southern edge of Amazonia is the cause of one third of the global loss of rain forests.

Coffee plantation in the foreground are dried on patios coffee beans.

Historical sugarcane plantation in Quissamã, State of Rio de Janeiro

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