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National Cargill, one of the largest food and agribusiness companies in the world, purchased grain in the area of the municipality of São José do Xingu, which lost approximately 800 hectares of forest between 2013 and 2015. The purchase violates the Soy Moratorium, which Cargill makes part, which vetoes a negotiation of products from areas of the Amazon deforested after 2008.
On the property, which has a total of 2 thousand hectares, the Prodes found evidence of deforestation on at least three occasions. In 2014 alone, 634 hectares of forested land were deforested.
The Soy Working Group (SWG) – the entity responsible for monitoring the moratorium – confirmed that 370 hectares of soy still planted in a deforested area were acquired by the company, but was not included in the group’s exclusion list.
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