Current Human Impacts

Human Impacts for this biome include agriculture and grazing by cattle. During the last 25 years modern agriculture had developed. Some of the Products include soya (Brazil accounts for a about a third of the world soyabean exports) maize, rice, beans and sugar. Coffee produced in the Cerrado is also important export. There is a huge number of cattle that are raised in planted pastures. Two of the farms in Brazil are the frontier of Brazilian Farming. Brazil has turned itself from a food importer to one of the world’s great breadbaskets. It is the first tropical food giants. Between 1996 and 2006 the total value of the countries crop rose from 23 billion to 108 billion. Also today this region contributes more then three quarters of the beef cattle production in the country. It overtook Australia’s in beef exports and considered the world’s largest exporter. It also has the worlds largest cattle herd after India’s. Charcoal production for Brazilian steel industries cause great destruction of this biome. Tree trunks and roots are often used in the production of charcoal.