Word: jari
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jari officials have recently moved to open up the project to outside visitors, especially Brazilians. But Ludwig himself determinedly maintains his cherished privacy. Unannounced, he slips in and out of Brazil on regularly scheduled commercial flights, riding tourist class...
...forest work has yet to produce a penny of earnings for Ludwig. The first lumber income will not appear on Jari's books any earlier than late 1979, after a $275 million wood-pulp mill, now being constructed on two huge barges in Japan, has been floated up the Jari River and set down on 3,900 wooden piles. By that time, Ludwig's first quarter-million-acre forest will be fully planted, and sections of it will be ready for clearcutting and reforestation. A second forest of the same size has already been mapped...
...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 2� tons...
...pure chance?or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence?the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...
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...