Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Mongabay
Oct 25, 2023, 6:18 pm167 pts
The most important production system in the Pan Amazon when measured by GDP is the cultivation of annual crops: particularly soy, but also maize, rice, sorghum, wheat and cotton. In Brazil and Bolivia, annual cropping is organized around soy, because export markets provide the potential for a very substantial…

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