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continued from page 6 only 1.7% is cultivated with sugarcane merely speculative without any
Organization of Petrol Exporting with half of this cane used for sugar and scientific base.
Countries (OPEC), that sees its power the other half used for the ethanol To demonstrate this fact, the
being challenged for the first time. production. This would amount to less sugarcane fields responsible for the
The lies created to force the world not than 1% of the arable land of this record production of Brazil are at least
to join the biofuels industry, like the immense country, of continental 2.5 thousand kilometers from the
influence of biofuels on food prices, can proportions, having raw material used Amazon region, without considering the
be discarded if we see that only 1% of for ethanol production. fact that the soils of that region are not
the arable land of the world is occupied Another absurd criticism is that some compatible with the sugarcane
with raw material for biofuel organizations claim that the Brazilian production.
production. sugarcane cane area is a menace to the The sector, although, is united in
For instance, in Brazil, from the 366 Amazon forest, another lie that makes giving true responses, and has the
million hectares used in agriculture, us believe that these organizations are
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