Comments by "Diego Yanes Holtz" (@diegoyanesholtz212) on "Brazil's Game-Changing Wheat: A Revolutionary Shift in Global Power || Peter Zeihan" video.
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I a from southern Brazil, I had a professor that was a wheat farmer in the Pampas region of Rio Grande do Sul, land and climate very similar to Argentina and Uruguay, Brazil imports most of is wheat from Argentina. My dad studied Agricultural science in UFPR (Universidade Ferderal do Paraná) and the US, he said that Embrapa, he know people who work there, want to plant wheat in Ceará, Northeastern Brasil. If wheat is viable there, I think it will be a game changer for one of the poorest region in Brazil, the Sertão Nordestino, the northeastern semi-arid, I know soy plantation made a very poor region into a richest in Brazil, just as prosperous as the south and in the 1950 the cerrado (Brazilian savanna) was as poor as the northeast. The cerrado , Mato Gross, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Tocantins and in some region of western Maranhão, Bahia and Piauí, there was a saying in the 1950s, "Land in the cerrado not given nor inherited" , now the cerrado is the most productive region in soy and beef. Wheat is a good crop for dryer regions. Here is the article in Portuguese.
https://globorural.globo.com/Noticias/Agricultura/Trigo/noticia/2021/03/trigo-surpreende-no-ceara-com-precocidade-e-alta-produtividade.html
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