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

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 ...