Well, hopefully in about a year's time, middle class Cariocas who like to squeeze 'em into juice...
Here's Marco, testing the oranges for, erm, orangeyness, a couple of weeks ago at our plantation in Palmital.
They are looking really big and healthy, precocious even, and full of plumptiousness, which is a good thing.
The whole landscape seems quite different, now it's inundated with thick bushy trees, instead of wimpy plantlets.
We now have a Dept. of Agriculture inspector who visits every few weeks, and offers advice.
Very helpful.
If we stick to poo as fertiliser, we can be certified organic.
Well, not us, the oranges, obviously.
Although, personally, I never use anything else...
Oranges, typo Seleta, probably a bit sour this year, so not a saleable harvest, but looking good for next year.
Brasilian farmers tend to plant orange trees and leave them until they are harvestable, without tending them, and the resulting trees, if they survive, tend to yield 3.5 boxes of fruit per tree.
Because ours are continuously tended with medicines, fertiliser, water etc.(we have 3 full-time staff, 2 of whom live onsite, plus tractor with water tanker etc.) it's reasonable to expect a much higher yield. However even at the low figure based on 3.5 boxes per tree, I look to profit around 40% per annum on my investimento.
All I gotta do is wait, and survive on bugger all in the meantime!!
As a result of which, I also have some more immediate ventures under way...see below...
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mmmmmmmm.. I can almost taste them... almost... actually not at all.... but I can see them if that counts... mmmmmmm... are they green?
Green???
Don't be ridiculous, if they were green, they'd be called greens.
Now, come on, eat 'em up....
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
As you'll have noticed, I haven't written owt since last April!
You are quite right of course, the posts have got better although it becomes writing for the sake of it somewhat. I also had more to write about later, as at the start I had a broken leg!
Why are you anonymous?
Hard to rate comments when I don't know who they're from...is that my mum?
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This is neat. Is orange growing popular in Brazil? I know some people who went to Honduras to try agriculture. Is it easy to get land to do things like this in Brazil or is it complicated?
I have invested with a small group of other foreigners. It's land that was used for orange growing many years ago, and then went over to cattle. I'm about to get my first payout from the oranges in a few days time. If you want details of how to make a similar investment, contact me via email, at nasher53@gmail.com, and I'll put you in touch.
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