Poised for Greatness?

Brazil believes it is poised to become the world’s biggest beef exporter.

By mid-2005, it hopes to begin exporting fresh beef into the United States and breaching the high Asian tariff barriers.

Antenor Nogueira, President of the National Confederation of Agriculture’s Permanent National Forum on Beef Cattle, believes his country has much to offer the rest of the world.

“We have a natural meat that is practically organic,” he says. “A meat produced in pastures, without antibiotics, without hormones, and with greater nutritional safety. And this is what the world consumer desires.”

Brazil’s climate, he believes, also will prove to be a major advantage.

“Brazil’s climate, with well-defined periods of rain and drought, is another advantage enjoyed by the national cattle herd, because it keeps various types of diseases, infections and other epidemics from spreading in our territory,” he says.

Between January and May, 2004, Brazil meat exports earned $866 million, almost a 63 percent increase from the previous year.

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