Talk:Industry in Brazil

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[edit] Useful links about Brazil

Facts about Brazil:

5th most populous country

http://geography.about.com/cs/worldpopulation/a/mostpopulous.htm

Biggest beef producer and has 207 million cattle

http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/farming/display.var.2217242.0.EU_and_ethanol_ease_threat_from_Brazilian_beef.php

3rd biggest chicken meet producer and has 4.6 billion chickens

http://www.apexbrasil.com.br/eng/noticia_detalhe.aspx?idnot=75 http://www.animalethics.org.uk/aec-c-chickens-entries.html

2nd biggest exporter of agricultural products

http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/crs/abstract.cfm?NLEid=1762

Biggest coffee producer

http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/brazil.htm

2nd biggest iron ore producer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_ore

2nd biggest soybean producer

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33652

Biggest sugarcane producer

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7120/full/444670a.html

6th largest uranium reserves

http://www.inb.gov.br/english/reservasBrasil.asp

3rd biggest bauxite producer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite

5th biggest manganese producer

http://www.manganese.org/production.php

3rd biggest corn producer

http://www.grains.org/page.ww?section=Barley%2C+Corn+%26+Sorghum&name=Corn ⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 20:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)