Poor practices taint Brazil’s ethanol exports
By John Rumsey and Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo
Published: May 20 2008 22:27 | Last updated: May 20 2008 22:27
Luís Oliveira and his gang get up at dawn to take a rickety bus to Fazenda Agua Doce, a sugarcane farm in central São Paulo state where the heat regularly tops 40 degrees.
They cut the cane by hand with a machete-like tool, the podão, the design of which has not moved on much since its invention. Water breaks are short and food meagre and unappetising.
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