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Drought Could Drain More Than Brazil's Coffee Crop
2014-02-23 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Brazil, a country usually known for its rainforests, has been facing a severe drought in its breadbasket region, leaving people in the cities without water and farmers in the countryside with dying crops. Global prices for coffee, in particular, have been affected. Scientists in Brazil say the worst is yet to come - yet no one in the government, it seems, is listening. On a recent day, farmer Juliano Jose Polidor walks through the desiccated remains of his cornfields. What's happened to...
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Brazil's big cane mills cut costs, capex against losses
2014-02-15 09:52:23| Agriculture - Topix.net
Weak sugar prices, government fuel price controls and a year of frost and drought are forcing Brazil's listed sugar and ethanol companies to cut costs and consider layoffs, as earnings reports this week have shown.
Brazil's coffee belt grapples with rare threat: Dry heat
2014-02-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In Brazil's coffee belt, frost has long been the biggest risk for farmers and commodities traders alike. But after years of migrating to warmer regions, farmers here now find themselves scrambling to overcome an unusual phenomenon: blistering heat. January was the hottest and driest month on record in much of southeastern Brazil, punishing crops in the country's agricultural heartland and sending commodities prices sharply higher in global markets. As signs emerged that the world's largest coffee...
New shore integration facility launched for Brazils submarine combat systems
2014-02-12 01:00:00| Naval Technology
DCNS has successfully launched a new shore-based integration facility for the Brazilian Navys next-generation conventional-propulsion submarines combat system at the French defence procurement agencys Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer centre near Toulon.
Tags: systems
facility
integration
combat
Investors less sweet on Brazil's sugar sector
2014-02-10 07:48:31| Sugar Industry News
Feb 6 (IFR) - Troubles across the Brazilian sugar sector are coming to a head, with investors keeping a nervous eye on troubled credit Aralco - which has been living from coupon payment to coupon payment, and has another coming due in May.
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