Charlie Bell wrote: > >> You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. >> There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) > > Hasn't it got rainforest on it? > No, the rainforest is 1000 km away from the sugercane area.
Check... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Brazil ... namely: Sugarcane production is concentrated in 6 brazilian states: São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás and Paraná. Those 6 states are responsible for 82% of the total production Except for Mato Grosso (that is in the border of the rainforest), none of those states are rainforest states. Map of the rainforest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest Map of Brazil states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brazil_Labelled_Map.svg In the map, above, the rainforest more or less corresponds to the green area, and the sugarcane to the yellow, part of the red and part of the blue. BTW, our "Saudi Arabia" is the central state in the red area, Rio de Janeiro (where I live). I am probably farther away from the rainforest than most USA listmembers :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
