Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 18 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 140 Brazil Global Resources Rice is produced on about 3 million hectares though the 11 million metric tons produced are mainly consumed within Brazil. Similarly the million metric tons of cotton grown on million hectares of land support Brazil s significant textile industry. In 2005 approval was given for cotton farmers to use genetically modified strains. Brazil is one of the top-ten producers of textiles. Two other major Brazilian exports include coffee and orange juice. In 2007 coffee was grown on million hectares mainly in the states of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais with a production of million metric tons. Oranges were cultivated on million hectare mostly in the state of Sao Paulo from which million metric tons were produced. Brazil is the world s largest producer of coffee and is responsible for about one-third of world production. It is also a leading exporter mainly to the United States and Europe in 2007 exports comprised twenty-eight million 60- kilogram bags which earned billion. Brazil is also the world s biggest producer of orange juice production in 2005 amounted to million metric tons out of a world total of million metric tons. Only about 2 percent is consumed internally while the other 98 percent is exported. Cattle meat notably beef and veal pork and chickens chicken meat are important components of Brazil s agriculture and export earnings. Cattle ranches are prevalent in the west-central region though ranching has expanded north and illegal grazing is now a major cause of Amazon deforestation. Brazil has the largest cattle industr y in the world with more than 200 million head of cattle. It is also a leading exporter of beef mainly to Europe and Chile with exports amounting to 80 million metric tons per month and the industr y continues to expand. Pig rearing is also important in Brazil s agricultural sector with about 34 million head. The three southern The Brazilian Amazon jungle is a source of numerous natural
