Day 242 - 29 Apr 96 - Page 12

     
     1        roads, refrigerated transport.
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     3        The original idea behind the promotion of cattle expansion
     4        in the late 1950s/early 1960s, was that it should go mainly
     5        to export.  The idea was export driven to raise foreign
     6        exchange for a country with a rather narrow export base in
     7        that sense and there is relevance in the point that you
     8        make, yes.
     9
    10   Q.   Okay.  Then it says:
    11
    12        "The rainforest has been destroyed principally to be used
    13        in cattle raising.  Close to 71 per cent of the farmland
    14        was allocated to pastures; 16 per cent left in forest, and
    15        only 13 per cent in to all other uses."
    16
    17        The reference to that is page 68 to the documents which
    18        I disclosed this morning from that booklet from the
    19        Tropical Science Centre.  If people look on page 68.
    20        Mr. Carriere, I do not think you have that package.
         (Handed) That really should be put behind the Carriere
    22        statement.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Does it make more sense to put it behind
    25        Mr. Cesca's documents as they all came from the same
    26        source?
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  That is fine, yes.
    29        A.  It is not punched incidentally so I cannot put it in.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not worry, someone else will do that for
    32        us later.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  The actual quote is on page 68, if I am right. It
    35        is the last full sentence on page 68 in the section headed
    36        "Beef Cattle Production".  The last two full sentences are
    37         -- and this is in the context of deforestation.  If you
    38        look at the first sentence in that paragraph, it talks
    39        about from 1950 increase in farmland and then it says in
    40        the last two complete sentences:
    41
    42        "By 1973, pastureland represented 50 per cent of all
    43        farmland up from 34.8 per cent in 1950."
    44
    45        Then it says:
    46
    47        "Close to 71 per cent" -- which is a direct quote from the
    48        Cesca document -- "of all new farmland by 1973 from 1950
    49        was allocated to pastures; 16 per cent left in forest and
    50        only 13 per cent into all other uses" 
    51 
    52        With that, if you like, clarification of what it said in 
    53        the Cesca document, would that accord with your
    54        understanding?
    55        A.  That coincides with my understanding that this was the
    56        period of explosive growth of the cattle industry.
    57
    58   Q.   Right.
    59        A.  Which, if I may clarify, I found in my research led to
    60        a high degree of irrationality in land use, land with