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Crisis in the Cupboard.(orange trees in Brazil felled by disease)
Oranges are a big deal in Brazil. They account for 400,000 jobs and $1.2 billion in yearly exports; seven of every 10 glasses of orange juice drunk worldwide are squeezed from Brazilian fruit. The fortunes of Jose Luis Cutrale, said to be Brazil's richest man, were made in orange juice. But now the source of this bounty is in peril. Two years ago a mysterious disease began attacking the roots and veins of orange trees. In a matter of weeks the trees starve to death and the splendid leaf canopy withers into a gnarl of barren branches as brittle as witch's hair. Scientists call it "sudden death." To Marcos Schrank, a So Paulo grower who recently destroyed 12,000 stricken ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) August 7, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Melissa Harris Aug. 7--Anne Warzyniak held back tears Tuesday as state agriculture officials cut down her 9-year-old Valencia orange tree -- it took less than a minute. It was the first of hundreds of healthy citrus trees in east Orange County to be cut down a month after state agriculture
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 19, 2004 700+ words
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- Squeezed out: Brazil's biggest orange-juice exporter plants trees for small...
- Magazine article from: Latin Trade Pfeifer, Margarida O. November 1, 2006 700+ words
...biggest orange grower, Brazil faces two problems...grows more quickly than orange trees, so the money comes...things around, Cutrale, Brazil's largest orange...themselves, investors or Brazil's development bank...attractive compared to aging orange trees due to the low cost...
Source: HighBeam Research, Crisis in the Cupboard.(orange trees in Brazil felled by disease)