<P> Besides coffee, other crops increased in the 19th century, such as tobacco and cocoa, in Bahia, and rubber in Amazônia . In 1910 rubber represented about forty percent of exports . </P> <P> Brazilian coffee production exceeded global demand at the beginning of the 20th century . This resulted in the Taubaté Agreement, where the State began acquiring surplus for destruction and planting seedlings was forbidden--with the goal of maintaining a minimum profitable price . </P> <P> Rubber suffered from foreign competition . In 1870, English smugglers smuggled rubber tree seedlings out of Brazil and in 1895 began production in Asia . In the 1910s and 1920s this competition practically eliminated Brazilian production . </P> <P> In 1887 during the Empire era, the first school dedicated to the training of agronomists opened in the city of Cruz das Almas . In 1883, in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, a second school opened . </P>

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