The Brazilian exotic fruit papaya, produced in Bahia northeastern in
Brazil, is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's
rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with
exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits due their
irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the
semi-arid "sertao" region. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

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