Power in agricultural commodities, Brazil plays a supporting role in organic

Published 2021년 9월 27일

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A recent study titled "Organic production and sustainability" by Embrapa researchers, in collaboration with global data from the FAO, reveals a gap between Brazil's organic vegetable and fruit production and that of other countries, even in tropical climates. The country leads in organic sugar production but lags in milk production and has a small organic agricultural area compared to other countries. However, the study identifies potential for growth in Brazil's organic systems and points out that the largest area of organic cultivation is in agrarian reform settlements in Rio Grande do Sul, making Brazil the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America.

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If Brazil is a global power in agricultural commodities, in the international organic produce market, the country is a mere supporting role. A survey carried out by researchers from Embrapa concluded that the organic production of vegetables and fruits in Brazil is far removed from that of other countries, even when compared to nations that have a much smaller arable area than Brazil's. In the study “Organic production and sustainability”, researchers Ana Maria Resende Junqueira, João Paulo Guimarães Soares, Lucimar Santiago de Abreu, Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho and Edimar dos Santos de Sousa Junior analyzed production information from ten countries with important agricultural production distributed by four continents and also global data from FAO. In the case of organic vegetables, production in Brazil loses by a large margin to that of China, 11.5 times greater than that of Brazil, and also to smaller countries. Spain and Italy, for example, cultivate 4.3 and 6.4 times more ...

Source: Milkpoint