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Organic Cacao Farmers Help Reforest Brazils Amazon Jungle
2015-06-11 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "Now we realise what a paradise we live in," said Darcirio Wronski, a leader of the organic cacao producers in the region where the Trans-Amazonian highway cuts across the Xingú river basin in northern Brazil. Besides cacao, on their 100 hectares of land he grows bananas, passion fruit, cupuazú (Theobroma grandiflorum), pineapples and other native or exotic fruit with which his wife, Rosalina Brighanti, makes preserves that she sells as jams or jellies or uses as filling in homemade chocolate...
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