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☆ Brazil's Sao Paulo State Sweetens Railway Concession Proposal, Delays Auction
  + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
(Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo state on Saturday sweetened the concession for the construction of a railway line connecting its capital to the city of Campinas and postponed the auction for the project, which is now earmarked at a cost of 13.5 billion reais ($2.6 billion). The bidding document for the public-private partnership linking the largest city in Latin America to Campinas, located 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, had been published in March. The state government, however, has now decided to raise its participation in the project to 8.5 billion reais, up from the previous 6 billion reais, it said in a statement. It also will reduce what it pays to the winning bidder during the 30-year concession to around 250 million reais, from 400 million reais. The winner will be whoever makes the lowest bid for payment by the state as part of an exchange-for-service provision.
Persons: Alberto Alerigi, Marcela Ayres, Paul Simao Organizations: Reuters Locations: Sao Paulo, Campinas, Latin America
☆ Coffee research group progresses on naturally decaffeinated varieties
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Roberto Samora | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
SAO PAULO, June 16 (Reuters) - A Brazilian coffee research institute has started a decisive stage in a two-decade project to develop arabica coffee varieties that are naturally decaffeinated, a development the researchers think could have significant commercial potential. The program is being developed at the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas (IAC), a leading coffee research center that has provided many of the high-yield coffee plants that have helped Brazil become a powerhouse in the global coffee market, supplying more than a third of the trade. Companies selling decaffeinated coffee as well could benefit with reduced costs, since they could skip the industrial processes to remove caffeine from regular coffee varieties. Coffee trees usually take two to three years to produce the first fruits, so there are still some years ahead until the researchers can harvest that coffee and test it. Consumption of decaffeinated coffee accounts for around 10% of the market in the United States, according to data from the National Coffee Association (NCA).
Persons: Julio Cesar Mistro, Roberto Samora, Marcelo Teixeira, Sandra Maler Organizations: SAO PAULO, Instituto Agronomico, IAC, National Coffee Association, Thomson Locations: Campinas, Brazil, Europe, United States, New York
☆ Brazil investigates four more suspect cases of avian flu in wild birds
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Ana Mano | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
SAO PAULO, May 19 (Reuters) - Brazil is investigating another four new potential cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in wild birds, according to authorities from the state of Espirito Santo, where Brazil's first ever cases were confirmed this week. Detection among wild birds does not spark bans under WOAH guidelines. Espirito Santo is Brazil's third biggest egg producing state and Brazil is the world's biggest chicken exporter. The birds whose samples are now being processed were captured in the municipalities of Nova Venecia, Itapemirim, Linhares and Vitoria, Espirito Santo authorities said. Ipram is where the weakened shore birds were taken before Brazil announced its first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza on Monday.
☆ Brazil boosts bird flu defense to protect world's top chicken industry
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Ana Mano | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Per protocol, local veterinarians in Espirito Santo took samples from the birds on site and sent them to the reference lab in Campinas, Brazil. "The entire industry is mobilized to monitor the situation identified in Espirito Santo," national meat lobby ABPA said in a statement. In other countries, avian flu outbreaks in wild birds have frequently been followed by transmission to commercial flocks. Bird flu outbreaks have contributed to higher prices of poultry and eggs, normally an affordable source of protein. Since early 2022, wild birds have spread the highly infectious virus farther and wider around the world than ever before.
☆ Fruitarian Frogs May Be Doing Flowers a Favor
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Sofia Quaglia | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish-orange frogs. While many frogs eat insects, the tree frog species Xenohyla truncata has a taste for the pulp of bulbous fruits and the nectar in the tree’s flowers. As they seek that nectar, the frogs dunk their entire bodies into the plant’s flowers, only their butts sticking out. Then they hop off, potentially transporting the pollen from their previous stop at the tropical buffet into the next milk fruit flower they encounter. In other words, the frogs may disperse the plant’s seeds and pollinate its flowers — which would be the first time this has been seen in an amphibian.
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