Uberlandia, Brazil

Departure from Belo Horizonte, the streets clogged with cars. We're going into town Uberlandia, In this trip we are destined to see only a tiny part of the country, which is an area almost twice the European Union. In most Uberlandia and around the struggle for pastures that are threatened by the expansion of soya and sugar cane. Exports of agricultural brings Brazil $ 72 billion a year. 60 years ago, "says Tiago Camargue, a 32-year-old veterinarian and cattle breeder at a cow here were five acres of pasture. And now we have to cram in the same area of ??60 goals. Who can not cope, is forced to lease land to soybean planters and move into the city. On Brazilian pastures grazed 200 million head of cattle. Most of the livestock species hybrids of Indian zebu cattle, which gain carcass weight (45 kilograms) in just three years. To survive in competition with planters, breeders like Tiago Camargue trying to take the new breed. Their goal is not only shorten the reach slaughter weight of up to two years, but also increase the specific gravity and sirloin antrekotnoy parts that are sold abroad from 50 to 55 percent. Without the genetic laboratory and computer programs can not solve this problem. If the Camargue will bring the perfect breeding bull's attention, early maturing, rapidly gaining weight and has a delicate meat, then this bull breed can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Superheated Brazilian economy that has created a special type of manager, which in Western countries is formed only in an economic downturn, in an atmosphere of disillusionment following the euphoria. Bernardo Pasodiniz are tired of the business and retired to rest wealthy philanthropists. He sold his company for iron ore for 1,2 billion dollars, he settled in a villa near Belo Horizonte, surrounded by palm trees and monumental sculptures and dreams of the ideal of Brazil. Bernardo Paz wants to build in Brazil, something that will cause the country to wake up from the euphoria of the economic boom caused by rising prices for raw materials. In his view, the level of education in the country is just humiliating. "Look at India and China are investing in education! Their universities will soon become the best in the world. And Brazil? Bernardo contemptuously tsedit through clenched teeth: We supply the food). But many Brazilians are living better now than it ever was! And this is because the state poses as a charitable organization, he explains. Takoe can only afford a very rich country. But Brazil does not export high technology products, we only supply the raw materials for its production. In Bernarlu Paz hurts the soul of Brazil. Brazil's real wealth is not oil or meat, but the culture and nature, he said.