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Brazil is the world's leader in agricultural exports, having transformed into a self-sufficient country into a major exporter of various products like soybeans, meat, sugar, corn, coffee, orange juice, cotton, watermelons, cashew nuts, and tobacco. This success is largely due to its own research and technology, especially from Institutes like Embrapa. However, this leadership is threatened due to the destruction of rainforests and the Cerrado for soybean planting and cattle farming. The article highlights the danger of competitors using Brazil's environmental issues to reduce its agricultural exports and points out other concerns such as the potential opening of indigenous reserves to farmers and alleged working conditions akin to slavery. Additionally, European retail chains have warned that they may stop purchasing products from Brazil if deforestation continues at the current rate.
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Caption: Brazil today has, by far, the largest net export of agricultural products in the world No other sector in Brazil has been so successful on the world market in the past 15 years. But that is threatened because most farmers do not seem to recognize the signs of the times, writes Alexander Busch. It is amazing how Brazilian agriculture has developed over the past 15 years. It transformed Brazil, a self-sufficient country that imported many agricultural products, into the largest agro-exporter in the world. And this despite the fact that the volume of the world market for agricultural products has, at the same time, tripled between 1995 and 2019. Brazil today has, by far, the largest net export of agricultural products in the world. The country is not only producing a lot in its fields: it is also increasingly able to export a lot and more each year. It is different from the USA, the world's largest agricultural power: the country produces and exports a lot, but it is also ...
Source: Brasilagro
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