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Brazil cancels 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in Amazon rainforest | World News, The Indian Express

Brazil cancels 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in Amazon rainforest | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Sao Paolo |Published: November 7, 2019 1:00:25 pm

Brazil cancels 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in Amazon rainforest

Although areas under sugarcane cultivation are being reduced in Brazil, green groups worry that the crop could eventually be planted in recently cleared areas in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest.



Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho in Brazil on September 10. (Reuters)


Brazil has cancelled a 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in its Amazon rainforest and central wetlands, the government gazette said on Wednesday, a move environmentalists criticized as another assault on the country’s sensitive ecosystems.

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