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The economics of feijoada, Brazil’s national dish

Feijoada not only fuels millions of Brazilians around the country each week, it also provides a crucial boost to two of Brazil’s most important agricultural production chains: pig farming and the cultivation of beans, which produced more than BRL 40 billion (USD 7.5 billion) combined in 2020 alone.

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