Brazil's grain
infrastructure needs 20 years of work - industry official
Ana Mano
Euronews – 23.2.2018
Arlington,
Virginia - Brazil has spent billions of
dollars improving its port infrastructure, but it will be another 20 years
before road, rail and waterway bottlenecks that hamper agricultural exports are
resolved, a top industry economist said on Thursday.
Brazil
is the world’s top exporter of soybeans, sugar and beef, and the second largest
grains exporter. Improvements in port capacity have ended chronic delays that
plagued exports for years.
But the transport networks that feed the
ports still need a lot of work, said Daniel Amaral, chief economist of the
country’s oilseeds association Abiove.
“Brazil
still has an inadequate transportation matrix,” he said at an industry
conference in the United States. “We need a lot more investments in waterways
and rails.”
Roads
in some parts of Brazil that connect producing regions to ports are still not
paved, Clay Hamilton, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who
works at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, said at the same event.
Earlier
this month, soy truckers in Brazil posted footage showing they were unable to
move on an unpaved stretch of highway in the state of Para connecting the
country’s agricultural heartland to the northern ports.Despite the
restrictions, exports from Brazil continue to rise and the country’s role as an
agricultural powerhouse grows. Brazil is on track to eclipse the United States
as the world’s top corn exporter and is competing with the United States for
market share in countries such as Mexico. (Reuters)
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