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Amazon deforestation rose 17% in 'dire' 2020, data shows

By Anastasia MoloneyBOGOTA, April 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, according to new data published on Wednesday.The loss of primary forest - the clearing of old-growth, intact forest for the first time - hit its third-highest annual total on record since 2000, reaching 2.3 million hectares (5.6 million acres) in the nine countries spanned by the Amazon.

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U.S. announces largest sale of corn to China since January

CHICAGO, March 16 (Reuters) - China booked its largest purchase of U.S. corn since January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Tuesday. The USDA confirmed that private exporters sold 1.156 million tonnes of U.S. corn to China, the biggest sale announced through the USDA's daily reporting system since Jan. 29, when China bought 2.1 million tonnes of the grain in the second-largest U.S. corn sale on record.

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2021 US Crop Acres USDA projections.

U.S. 2021 corn acreage seen at 92.8 million, soy at 90.3 million -survey

March 15 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are expected to plant 92.828 million acres of corn in 2021 and 90.317 million acres of soybeans, according to an annual survey conducted by commodity brokerage and analytical firm Allendale Inc released on Monday. * Projected corn plantings would be above the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Outlook Forum forecast for 92.0 million acres and above the 90.8 million acres planted in 2020.

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