Brazil Crops Shrivel as Amazon Dries Up to Lowest in 47 Years

``Drought in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer of coffee, sugar and oranges, is harming crops and drying the Amazon River to its lowest in 47 years... Growers in Brazil’s Southeast expect the drought will pare output of the nation’s key commodities... “If it doesn’t rain, there is just one word to describe it: Disaster,” Aldir Alves Teixeira, who manages coffee purchases in Brazil at Illycaffe SpA, said in a telephone interview from Sao Paulo last week. ''