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China Buying Brazil? China-Brazil Trade Agreement Promises to Boost Family Farming with Machinery, Technology and More, check out the details of the Chinese dominance project!
In June 2024, the Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger, Wellington Dias, was in Beijing for an important meeting with Chinese authorities and businesspeople. The objective was to discuss new partnerships between Brazil and China, focusing on the modernization of the agricultural sector. One of the main points discussed was the strengthening of the mechanization of Family Farming, through a trade agreement between the two countries. This technological partnership promises to boost rural production in Brazil, making it more efficient and competitive in the global market. Check out the details of this strategic alliance and how it can impact the future of Brazilian agriculture.
China buying Brazil with machinery for family farming?
According to Dias, this is a fertile territory in which a trade agreement between China and Brazil makes a lot of sense given the need to modernize and mechanize Brazilian family farming production to increase productivity.
There are 4 million small properties in Brazil that need small machines for preparing the land and for harvesting and processing products.
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China has a highly successful experience and Brazil wants to increase the productivity of family farming and increase the income of these workers.
The agreement, in which China would be buying Brazil, was signed in September 2022 to strengthen the food production chain that includes machinery with direct benefits for what we mentioned above in relation to Brazilian Family Farming.
The partnership includes research and development, manufacturing and trade of agricultural machinery, technology and product processing equipment, education and training in mechanization, among other projects in the same direction. The exchange unprecedented, where China would be buying Brazil, was consolidated in 2023, with the visit of a Chinese delegation here in Brazil.
What is the objective of the China-Brazil trade agreement?
The objective is to strengthen mechanization in family farming and agrarian reform areas, increasing the production of food that does not require the use of pesticides in the national territory, also marking an unprecedented cooperation initiative between the two countries in the experimental field of technological development in the Northeast.
On February 2, 2024, in the municipality of Apodi, the inauguration of the agricultural machinery testing center took place with the arrival of 31 machines from China to be delivered to the farming family of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Maranhão and Ceará, within the scope of an international cooperation agreement.
They are part of the Northeast Consortium, the Agricultural University of China, the International Association for People's Cooperation, the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), the Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers and the federal government, through the More Food Program.
Understand the importance of this agreement for Brazilian family farming
Currently, in China, around 87% of rural agriculture is already mechanized. In Brazil, this number is less than 13%. In the northeast, the region with the largest number of peasant families, access to machinery is even lower, reaching less than 3%.
For the Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Paulo Teixeira, the machinery of the trade agreement between China and Brazil is intended to industrialize the Northeast, increase the income of family farmers and agriculture, modernize the primary sector and thus further develop this region that has so many difficulties.
An agreement was also made with the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte for this mechanization and training program for farmers. Under the agreement in which China would be purchasing Brazil, the machines will be tested for a period of time regarding their adaptation to the needs of production in the national territory and in the future they will be manufactured in Brazil.
