Word: jacarezinho
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Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep...
Today, after false starts and heavy going, Rockefeller has four projects (besides the mechanization company) that can argue for themselves. On an 867-acre hilltop farm near Jacarezinho, a mixedcapital company has completed its 32nd cross of Brazilian seed corn, has harvested 32 tons of high-yielding hybrid, and sold the lot to Parana and São Paulo farmers. For the world's third largest corn producer, the possibilities of hybrid were scarcely less revolutionary than they had proved for Iowa...
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