Article: Brazil: Amazon to export brown sugar.

Brazil, Nov 19, 2004 (Valor Economico /SABI via COMTEX)

The sugarcane brown sugar produced by communities of the Amazon is to become an exporting product. The Vila Uniao community has recently supplied 1m ton of the product to Agrorisa who produces the guarana expectorant that will be delivered to Italy. The production of the brown sugar - or guamixo - in the region started in the end of the 19th century. In the mid of the past decade, Coca-Cola - that in 1990 installed its Brazilian plant at the Manaus Free Trade Zone - developed a program aimed at encouraging the large scale ...

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