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Brazil's Growing Power; The country is planting its once arid frontier and fast becoming an agribusiness titan.(South America)(Cover Story)
Byline: Mac Margolis
It's not yet noon in Mato Grosso state, but already the tropical sun presses through the clouds like a steam iron. This is Brazil's far west, a flat, featureless expanse at the bottom lip of the Amazon basin. The mercury is pushing 40 Celsius, but the 100 or so people gathered today on a simmering stretch of fresh asphalt seem hardly to notice. They have come to get a glimpse of MT-449, the newest Brazilian highway. It's just a patch of tarmac, but don't tell that to the residents of Lucas do Rio Verde, a bustling farm town in the nation's biggest grain belt. Just getting their produce to market used to mean an epic journey over dirt tracks ...
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