Environment

Mato Grosso hopes irrigation will give it a third yearly harvest

Mato Grosso Governor Mauro Mendes says he wants his state, an agricultural powerhouse, to be a reference in Amazon preservation

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Mato Grosso Governor Mauro Mendes. Photo: Mayke Toscano / Secom-MT

Mauro Mendes, governor of the agricultural state of Mato Grosso in central-western Brazil, is in the U.S. to promote investments aimed at expanding the agribusiness sector while minimizing environmental degradation — despite the fact that the local Mato Grosso vegetation has already been drastically altered in recent decades.

Mr. Mendes attended the Brazil Summit in New York City, an event hosted by the Financial Times and of which The...

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