The relationship between Brazil’s development and the growth of the world’s largest food market, China, is well-known. Fifty years ago, China’s GDP was lower than Brazil’s, and Brazil was a food importer. Brazil underwent a truly creative tropical revolution, agribusiness, and China multiplied its GDP, reaching US$18 trillion annually, the world’s 2nd largest economy, and became the world’s largest producer and importer of food. Brazil accounts for approximately 18% to 20% of China’s dependence on agriculture. Brazil sells 38% to 40% of the world’s.
The relationship between Brazil’s development and the growth of the world’s largest food market, China, is well-known. Fifty years ago, China’s GDP was lower than Brazil’s, and Brazil was a food importer.
Brazil has undergone a truly creative tropical revolution, agribusiness, and China has multiplied its GDP, reaching US$18 trillion annually, the 2nd largest economy in the world, and has become the largest producer and importer of food on the planet.
Brazil accounts for approximately 18% to 20% of China’s dependence on agriculture. Brazil sells 38% to 40% of its agriculture to China, and this largely involves eight products: sugar, cotton, cellulose, meat (chicken, pork and beef), corn and soybeans.
The package launched by China now, which has impacted the Ibovespa and will have consequences on the commodities market, will inject the 2nd largest economy on the planet with a strong stimulus for real estate construction, cuts in mortgage rates and support for the purchase of a “second home”. This plan is considered the most aggressive post-COVID-19 pandemic.
In this way, we can and should seek sales of new products to reduce dependence on the eight that account for 38% of our sales. Coffee, for example, orange juice, fruits, soybean oil, peanut oil, dairy products, fish and, without a doubt, a very important factor in attracting Chinese investment aimed at the sustainability of national agriculture, for the carbon and biofuels market.
China’s goal is to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2060. Brazil is a giant in the West that has enormous relations with the East. China is the largest client, Asia, besides China, is the 2nd largest client, the whole of Europe is in 3rd place, but then the Middle East and the Halal, Muslim market, comes in 4th place and also has enormous potential to double in size.
In other words, Brazil, with its agribusiness, has all the conditions to strongly develop its GDP with a strategic plan, with commercial diplomacy, and by accelerating the project to convert 40 million hectares of degraded pasture areas into sustainable crops.
And with a global dialogue that is far removed from polarizations, this will do much more good for Brazil and the world than ideological outbursts in media discourse. Brazilian peace for the world lies in food, sustainable energy, the environment, exemplary cooperatives and a mission with the planet’s tropical belt.
Climate change has forced us to seek to unite the planet, and COP-30, in Pará, is a great historic opportunity for Brazil. It all depends on us. We can produce and sell much more, and all of this with science and sustainability. It is agro-conscious.