Brazil Gets Biodiesel Tractor

Vehicle maker Agrale has sold its first biodiesel powered vehicle in Brazil, the Agrale 4100.4 Biodiesel, in its 4000 line.

The vehicle was purchased by farmer Aristides Antônio Cavagnolli, in the city of Coronel Pilar, in the region of the Valley of the Wineries, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The farmer works in grape farming and produces around 140,000 kilograms of grapes per year on five hectares. The 4000 tractor line was developed to operate on diesel or biodiesel. Biodiesel is a fuel produced from vegetable oils.

The Agrale machine was developed to operate with mineral diesel and a 5% mixture of vegetable oil, which can be made among other things of soy, dendê and castor oil.

Agrale has been a leader in the small tractor sector, up to 40 hp, for over 30 years. For the last 40 years, the company has been producing models turned to family farming and small properties.

Anba

Tags:

You May Also Like

In Brazil, I Found Out, Magic Is an Everyday Reality

There is a church in Curitiba that blesses cars. When I first heard this, ...

Lula: Brazil Doesn’t Need Foreign Loans to Keep Growing

In an address, Monday, January, on a national radio and television pool, Brazilian President ...

Brazil’s Poultry Sales Abroad Up 20% First Quarter

Brazilian poultry exports yielded US$ 256.8 million in March, which represented an increase in ...

Brazil’s Food Co-op to Export 35% of Its Production

The Middle East has been importing chicken from the Central Cooperative of Western Santa ...

Brazil’s Castroneves Hoping Indy 500’s 3rd Pole Will Bring His 3rd Win

One has to wonder if Hélio Castroneves and his sister were brought up on ...

Press Too Cozy to Power in Brazil

Brazil’s National Federation of Journalists is asking the government to forward to Congress a ...

Brazil Estimates 12% Bigger Harvest for 2005

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics’ (IBGE) first estimate for the 2005 agricultural ...

Brazil’s Empretec Makes Railway and Veterinary Equipment

Empretec, a company that is based in the city of Guarulhos, in the Greater ...

Half a Million Aboard this Season: Cruise Grows 623% in 8 Years in Brazil

Brazilian tourists by the thousands are enjoying the summer on board beautiful, modern and ...

Syrian President Visits Lula and Proposes Closer Ties with Brazil

The president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, on his first-ever tour of Latin America proposed ...

WordPress database error: [Table './brazzil3_live/wp_wfHits' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `wp_wfHits`