In any of the last three columns looked defend or attack agribusiness. Not declared myself in love with some Katia. Only pontuei an irreversible path that, like others, does not prevent adverse side effects.
millennial activity, essential for the planet, abundant economic interactions, political and social inclusion therein hegemonic or peripheral poverty, food safety, environmental preservation, so view from above or magnifying glass does not give space to Manichean ideological or partisan discussions.
Despite all climate grace, territorial and natural resources “blessed by God” long fellas the midfield in world agricultural marathon.
monoculture cycles, lack of planning, land unregulated occupation, little ball of society and leaves and everyday fabrics, besides the little political influence, were Governments come and go without looking at the sector as a serious vocation and treated, provide cheap food to the population and bring good money from abroad.
Far from the runners up back there, could be seen a track huge advertising Biotônico we lacked: technology. Only from the 1980s, we began to develop it and evolve.
Getting to the final chapters of the book, however, will require understanding complex pages. Before going to what lies ahead, I soon passed as we have for today.
70 million hectares planted with soybeans and corn, the US just reap 712 million tons. The Brazil, on 47 million hectares (considered two crops of corn) are estimated by Conab, will produce 175 million tons of the two grains in the 2014/15 season.
That is to say, each hectare Uncle Sam pulled 10,200 kg, while we will take 8150 kg, 20% less.
I do not say we’re evil. On the contrary, we have improved a lot. Twenty seasons ago, we took 4850 kg / ha, while the children of women who earn jelly contests in Mid-West produced between 40% and 50% more. It is true that with baitas subsidies d’never before browsed here.
The freshly harvested North American production, confirmed the projections for corn and soybeans in Brazil and Argentina, will lead the world grain stocks to higher levels of recent years. Result:. Falling prices
To make prices fall enough ads planted by trading companies. Needless to pods or ears that leave the feet
In the last 12 months, soybean prices in Chicago fell 20%.; the maize 6%. It is expected that after harvest the southern hemisphere crops, fall further. Grow the producer perrengue and will ease the hunger of FAO, who knows and does not acknowledge that the problem is not insufficient production, but of poor distribution, waste and corrupt and dictatorial political systems.
Well, but it is this which seems to be much more nice with us than is likely to be the future.
Think of a small robot. Yes, to facilitate the imagination commentator can be equal to that of the series Lost in Space (CBS, 1965/68) , the “B9″, friend of Dr. Zachary Smith botched.
The Americans invented a substitute capable of covering their crops and, of them, by detecting infrared ray, remove harmful weeds able to impair productivity.
Not that it make them give up harvesters worth $ 500 thousand, monocultures with the easiest varieties to grow, transgenic adoidada, accurate measurements with 2.5 cm between each groove, fertilizers in the right dose every square meter of soil analyzed, and drones that regulate the intensity of irrigation.
In the fields of Iowa, “smart phones”, equipped with weather application, inform every half hour forecasts, including historical rainfall data in the region.
Computer systems are in the clouds so as here the irregular rainfall of St. Peter.
Meanwhile, in corporations Federation, we are concerned the false dilemma business or family agriculture, not realizing that the first will only survive if undergo costly technological innovations , highly skilled labor, to join the robots.
For the other, as important as the first, at first, the good old State. Strong statement doses, technical support, financing, specific technologies for higher added value crops on small tracts of land, and insertion in organized supply chains.
The current North American technology standard, in part already adopted here by major producers are making return to the field, as prodigals, old exiled to urban areas. The same may happen with the family farm. Sufficient income security and social comfort.
If I do not change my mind, in the next column, I return to the subject.
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