January 12, 2010
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Country News
1. Brazilian agricultural production to rise 5.2 percent to 140 million tonnes in 2010
2. Lula and the generals - Don't look back
3. Excellent rain-timing anticipates record crops in Brazil of coffee and soy
4. Brazil cut mandatory ethanol mix into gasoline to 20%
5. Brazil to choose France's Rafale jet-govt
Country News
Brazilian
agricultural production to rise 5.2 percent to 140 million
tonnes in 2010
(MacauHub)
Brazilian agricultural production should this year rise to 140.7 million
tonnes, a 5.2 percent increase over 2009, the Brazilian Geography and Statistics
Institute (IBGE) has announced.
The production increase will result from the larger area planted with cereals,
legume and oil-bearing crops, a total of 48.1 million hectares, 2 percent
more than last year, the institute indicated on Thursday.
The IBGE’s Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production predicts
that harvests will increase during the analysis period, especially
of beans (17.9 percent), coffee beans (15.2 percent), soybeans (14.4
percent) and potatoes (1.0 percent).
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Lula and the generals - Don't look back
(From The Economist print edition)
IT IS 25 years since Brazil moved from dictatorship to democracy, but its army remains surprisingly unreformed. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was rudely reminded of this just before Christmas when he signed a decree calling for a truth commission to investigate torture, killings and disappearances during military rule between 1964 and 1985. Within 24 hours the heads of the three armed forces threatened to resign along with Nelson Jobim, the defence minister. Lula seemed quick to retreat. He was reported as saying the government would think again.
Argentina and Chile have not only had such commissions, but have jailed
many former military officers. Brazil’s dictators were less bloodthirsty.
Even so, 300-400 leftist opponents were killed or disappeared under the
military regime and several thousand were tortured. But before gradually
handing power back to civilians, the generals passed a blanket amnesty
for “political crimes” by the government and by armed leftist
groups. Their successors have allowed only limited civilian control over
military affairs.
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Excellent rain-timing anticipates record crops in Brazil of coffee and soy
(MercoPress)
Brazil’s coffee crop may beat the 48.48 million bag record this year, the country’s crop supply agency said in a report which also raised forecasts for the newly-begun soybean harvest.
The world's biggest coffee grower will produce 45.89-48.66 million bags of beans in 2010-11, an increase of up to 23% on this year's harvest and potentially beating the record set eight years before, Conab said.
The rise is down in part to coffee's biennial cycle, which sees periods
of lower production, such as the 2009-10 year which ends in March, followed
by "on" years of greater output.
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Brazil
cut mandatory ethanol mix into gasoline to 20%
(Bloomberg)
Summary of original article by Iuri Dantas and Katia Cortes
Brazil cut the mandatory amount of ethanol mixed into gasoline to 20 percent from 25 percent after stocks fell, the government said today.
The new ethanol requirement will take effect from Feb. 1 and last 90 days, the Agriculture Ministry said today in an e- mailed statement.
Ethanol production in Brazil’s Center South, the world’s
largest sugar-producing region, fell 8.3 percent last year to 22.2 billion
liters (5.86 billion gallons) compared with a year earlier, industry
association Unica said Dec. 15. Above-average rainfall in Brazil’s
Center South hindered harvesting that ended last month and reduced yields.
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Brazil to choose France's Rafale jet-govt
(Reuters)
Summary of original article by Natuza Nery
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will choose the French-made Rafale jet as Brazil's next-generation fighter plane but wants to negotiate a lower price, a cabinet member told Reuters on Monday.
Lula will opt to buy 36 Rafale multi-role aircraft made by France's Dassault Aviation despite the Brazilian Air Force's preference for the Gripen NG made by Sweden's Saab said the minister, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"The government doesn't decide under pressure from anybody, not
even the Air Force. The ball is in the court of the French," said
the minister, "If they reduce the price, we'll close the deal soon."
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