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While most students are recuperating from fall semester or steeling themselves for the spring, Edward B. Schwenk '76, one of 92 mid-year graduates, is packing his bags for Bolivia and the Amazon...
Just because they served steak in the dining halls last night--my piece looked like a topographic map of South America with the Amazon especially tough going--doesn't take away from the fact that around Harvard's kitchens you get a lot of food for thought but little for consumption...
Despite the mistakes?the list also includes some imported prefab houses that were devoured by Amazon bugs, and a supposedly super dredging machine that got hopelessly mired in Amazon mud?the progress at Jari is extraordinary. So far, about 185,000 acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows...
...there is more to Ludwig's Brazilian venture than just trees. Jari has diked, drained, leveled, and planted in rice 5,000 acres of swampy land along the Amazon riverbanks. In September the company had its first rice harvest. On the rice project alone, Ludwig has spent more than $20 million for the three airplanes that do the seeding and fertilizing, a fleet of 26 rice harvesters, and a drying and storage facility. By 1982 Jari will have 35,000 acres of rice under cultivation. Single crop yields are roughly the same as in Arkansas and Missouri?about 2¼ tons...
Untrue Rumors. The Brazilian government has long pursued its own plans to colonize and develop the Amazon, so far with disappointing results. In a way, Ludwig's project is the realization of this old Brazilian ambition. Yet Jari has picked up an unjustifiedly distasteful reputation in Brazil. Because of Ludwig's passion for secrecy, abetted by Jari's remote location, untrue stories of slave laborers living in hovels have regularly appeared in the Brazilian press. In fact, while they are occasionally exploited by contractors, the migrant workers who make up about two-thirds of Jari's work force frequently return...