date:Apr 08, 2014
ber, area planted with soyabeans will likely expand by 1 million hectares, down from 2.5 million new hectares of soya area sowed this season, he said. Brazil is the world's top soyabean exporter and its crop size has approached that of the top-producing United States the last two years. But farmers have been battling a new type of caterpillar, helicoverpa armigera, that likely arrived from Asia, sending pesticide costs skyrocketing and challenging Brazil's much-lauded mastery of tropical agricul