The Mato Grosso Foundation, a research centre set up by the farmers, produces disease-resistant seeds.
Mr Mato Adrover accused the Council of a "corrupt application of the Lisbon Treaty".
Not at all, according to Blairo Maggi, the governor of Mato Grosso state.
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Apart from Mato Grosso do Sul, seven other states across southern and central Brazil have been affected by the epidemic.
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The company did not clarify whether it had already been officially notified by the court, in Mato Grosso do Sul state.
They're showing the world what we are doing together in Mato Grosso.
Spanish MEP Gabriel Mato Adrover spoke during a debate on 14 February 2012 on the stocks of western Atlantic horse mackerel and anchovy.
Mato Grosso state has pioneered the use of satellite-mapping to enforce a law that obliges Amazonia's landowners to leave 80% of forested land untouched.
In Mato Grosso, other problems too are starting to be solved.
Sena was one of many workers hired to help slash and burn land in Mato Gross state to make room for crops on Brazil's agricultural frontier.
Intriguingly, Dr Balch's experimental area is part of an 80, 000-hectare holding owned by the family of Blairo Maggi, a soyabean magnate who is the governor of Mato Grosso.
Commercial farming in Mato Grosso has had to overcome formidable obstacles: high transport costs, recently low world prices, a currency till now overvalued, and a chronic lack of farm credit.
Paying farmers in Mato Grosso to reduce deforestation but doing nothing for farmers in the neighboring state of Amazonas would merely shift illegal logging from one place to the other.
In a recent speech, Health Minister Ana Mato argued that the new measures relating to illegal immigrants' access to free public healthcare were "not driven by a desire to save money".
Eduardo Carvalho, owner and editor of the Ultima Hora News website, was gunned down in Campo Grande, the capital of the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, on 21 November.
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