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SUMMARY:Brazil Agricultural Tour
DESCRIPTION:Brazil   the Best-kept secrets of an Agri-giant\nFebruar
 y 4 – 15, 2014.\nTo understand Brazil’s agriculture, you must visi
 t where it all started in Parana state and where all the action takes 
 place now in the vast 500 million acre plains of the Cerrado. But firs
 t, we’ll relax in a luxury hotel / spa at Iguacu Falls where Argenti
 na, Paraguay and Brazil meet.  The Coopavel Farm Show is on in nearby
  Cascavel and we’ll spend a day there seeing equipment displays, dem
 os, trade exhibits and trial plots.   Then we head to Curitiba, Para
 na’s capital city with its unique “green plan” and tour the harb
 or of Paranagua from where most of the soys are exported to world mark
 ets.  The picturesque train ride on the Serra Verde Express through M
 ata Atlantica natural forest is also a highlight.\nFor most of this fi
 rst week, we will tour and learn about OCEPAR, the Co-Operative system
 , the farmers’ market, Assentamentos and Land Reform in Brazil, the 
 Agro-ecology School of Latin America, Londrina Research Station, the C
 anadian Embassy Q&A and, of course visits to technologically advanced 
 cash crop and livestock farms..\nThey we fly to Brazil’s heartland o
 f Mato Gosso state to witness the growth there in soybeans, cotton, li
 vestock and increasingly value-added technology. These farms are relat
 ively new within the past 40 years and evolved from scrubland into meg
 a-farm sizes.  You’ll be amazed at fields stretching from horizon t
 o horizon and hear about how farmers are organized y through APROSOJA,
  a farmer organization of soy & corn growers, UNICOTTON / COOPERFIBRA 
 , a processor and exporter of cotton, and self-contained farms like Gr
 upo Maggi and Sementes Bom Futuro. You’ve read about all of this…�
 ��……..now isn’t it your turn to come and experience it firsthand
 ?\nThere is a lot more of Brazil still to explore.  So when the tour 
 finishes, why not do an Add-On to Rio de Janeiro, a city of extreme be
 auty boasting Corcovado and Sugar Loaf tourist sites.  Or fly to Mana
 us to experience Amazonia which is unlike any other part of Brazil.  
 There’s also the Pantanal, an ecological wonder and largest wetland 
 in the world.\n\nFor more information visit https://ontag.farms.com/ev
 ents/brazil-agricultural-tour
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20140204T000000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20140215T235900
CATEGORIES:agricultural, tour
LOCATION:Brazil
WEBSITE:http://www.rwthomastours.com
URL:http://www.rwthomastours.com
CONTACT:519 633 2390
ORGANIZER;CN="Bob Thomas":https://ontag.farms.com/profile/BobThomas514
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