Brazilian Agribusiness is World’s Most Sustainable, Minister says

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply, Tereza Cristina, praised Brazilian agribusiness in a speech at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Brazilian Rural Society, last tonight, September 30th, in the city of São Paulo. According to the minister, the Brazilian sector is the most sustainable in the world, it reaches the tables of one billion people a day and has room to grow more.

“The ministers of the BRICS [a group of countries comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa] came here recently and saw what agribusiness really is, and not what others say, what they depict as our agribusiness abroad, and that’s why today we are having to explain to the world what’s inexplicable. We have the most sustainable agribusiness in the world, but there is a misconception that we don’t do it the way we do,” she said at an event held at the Jockey Club headquarters in São Paulo.

The minister added that every day, agribusiness invests in more technology, and “we need to show this here, in our society, and also to the world”.

According to Tereza Cristina, the Brazilian sector has room to grow and should venture further. “The Brazilian agribusiness was still very timid, and we have great opportunities, we have extensive available land, we have sustainable production, we have our productivity growing more and more, we have technical skills, in short, we now need to be bolder, we need to grasp what we have to deliver to the global consumer. We need to know what they want from us”.

Source: Agência Brasil