We can just depend on that, said Scariot, who also raises pigs

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GETULIO VARGAS, canada goose factory sale Brazil (Reuters) With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by canada goose black friday sale giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend its biofuels sector to canada goose coats on sale include farmers like Lucas Scariot, who makes around $10,000 per year from selling grain.

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now we have incentives for new crops, because uk canada goose people are always talking about soy, soy, soy. We can just depend on that, said Scariot, who also raises pigs and chickens at his farm house.

The program is meant to boost production of biodiesel, which can be used in heavy vehicles like trucks, and reduce diesel imports the way the 30 year sugar cane ethanol program has cut the use of motor gasoline.

Brazil government hopes backing small farmers will help avoid problems associated with its ethanol sector, including growing concentration in the hands of large agribusiness and notoriously bad labor conditions that have drawn global Canada Goose Jackets condemnation. Those companies in 2009 purchased raw materials from around 51,000 small farmers, a figure slated to reach 100,000 by the end of this year.

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results have been fantastic, Oleoplan director Domingos cheap canada goose uk Costella said at the company headquarters, where a maze of machinery clouded in canadian goose jacket the overpowering smell of soy grinds up hundreds canada goose clearance sale of tonnes of the crop, extracts its oils canada goose uk outlet and mixes it with other chemicals to create fuel.

is a way for us to secure more raw material while still keeping the small farmer in mind.

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Brazil began biodiesel production in 2005 and in 2010 is expected to produce canada goose store 2.4 billion liters (634 million gallons). This year it buy canada goose jacket cheap began requiring all fossil diesel to be sold with a minimum 5 percent biodiesel mix.

canada goose deals Biodiesel backers say hiking that rate would cut carbon emissions and reduce state oil company Petrobras imports of diesel and distillate fuels, which last year reached 78,000 barrels per day more than 10 percent of its diesel output.

canadian goose jacket Petrobras has found new ways to refine vegetable based oils together with diesel in its petroleum refineries.

canada goose coats While the country ethanol program has won praise, it is also targeted by critics who say it contributes to rising food prices and makes use of quasi slave labor.

cheap Canada Goose The government last year put Cosan, the world largest sugar and ethanol group, on a list of companies that put workers in slave like conditions, though it was quickly removed.

Canada Goose Outlet can create better jobs than the ones in the ethanol sector, and with biodiesel those jobs can go to family farmers, said Arnoldo de Campos, coordinator of the program for the ministry of agricultural development.

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canada goose The program recruited thousands of family farmers to grow castor bean plants, which sprout spiky green seeds that advocates insisted could produce large amounts of oil and grow on degraded soil with little water.

Canada Goose sale But Canada Goose Coats On Sale no producer participating in the program has been able to commercially produce biofuels from the crop. Critics say this is because Canada Goose Parka production costs and yields are too high to justify using it for fuel.

canada goose store As a result, Brazil largest biodiesel maker had to shut two plants in the poor northeast after months of supporting castor bean cultivation, sparking outrage among farmers.