Brazilian agriculture: Soya beanfeast

Brazilian agriculture and environmental legislation: status and future challenges.

Brazilian agriculture covers about one-third of the land area and is expected to expand further. We assessed the compliance of present Brazilian agriculture with environmental legislation and identified challenges for agricultural development connected to this legislation. We found (i) minor illegal land use in protected areas under public administration, (ii) a large deficit in legal reserves ...

Conditional Fdh Efficiency to Assess Performance Factors for Brazilian Agriculture

In this article we assess the effect of market imperfections and income inequality on rural production efficiency. The analysis is carried out using the notion of stochastic conditional efficiency computed in terms of free disposal hull (FDH) efficiency measurements. Free disposal hull and conditional FDH are output oriented with variable returns to scale. They are evaluated for rural productio...

Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014

The Soya Bean and the New Soya Flour

The soya bean has been one of the staple foods of China and Japan for centuries; but it has never been consumed to any extent by other nations. Hitherto it has been grown chiefly in Manchuria, whence it is exported to Europe and America. The cost of production is low. In composition it is rich in fat and protein. In fact it resembles meat more in composition than other legumes or cereals do. It...

Significance of Soya Trypsin Inhibitors

Although recent evidence clearly indicates that trypsin inhibitors (TO and low protein digestibility are the major factors responsible for the pancreatic hypertrophic and growth inhibitory effects of raw soybeans, there was uncertainty regarding the biological threshold level of TI at which these biological effects occur. To obtain such data, dehulled defatted flakes (10% dietary protein) conta...