Guarana & Brasil

Today the topic we will discuss is soil! Such as an important factor for plants. people and for the world.                                             The soil of Amazon rainforest is the deepest in the world,  it have been formed from the underlying rock and rain. Some places of the Amazon River Basin, the soil is white and sandy. How is a rainforest, the rain has a lot of impact there, the soils are often washed out, so large amounts of nutrients and minerals are being removed from the subsoil, due to it, most of the soils are lacking many of the fundamental nutrients needed by the above ground vegetation. Composed by a thin topsoil, made up mainly of decaying vegetable and animals, what provide a high amount of organic matter. http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/about_the_amazon/ecosystems_amazon/rainforests/ http://www.soil-net.com/dev/pag...

Today I will discuss about  different and interesting topics. Let's start with Brasil and guaraná, this plant  has Brazilian origin mainly because the conditions and the climate found in that country. The Amazon is located in the equatorial region and has a hot and humid climate. http://climanalise.cptec.inpe.br/~rclimanl/boletim/cliesp10a/fish.html The graphic bellow shows better how is the weather and how the rainfall is distributed over the year at the rain forest.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/ecosystems/tropical_rainforests_rev1.shtml It is possible to observe that the temperatures do not have a lot of oscillations during the year, but the rainy months are mainly from December till May. For guaraná production the plant needs low altitude, warm and humid climate with 85% relative humidity, 26ºC average annual temperature and annual rainfall between 1,500 and 2000 mm.  http://www.ceplac.gov.br/radar/guarana.htm W...