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Growing Crops on Former Rainforest Lands
| Farmers can make money from growing crops on former rainforest lands. Once the crops use up the nutrients in the soil, it quickly become thin and poor, and before long nothing can grow.
After a few years, the land is abandoned and more trees are burnt to make way for the farms. One of the biggest crops that is grown in the Amazon is SOYA BEAN. The beans are then used to feed cows, or to make oil or to be used in food products. |
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