180 milhões de toneladas

Brazil has at the moment a stuck economy growing something like 2% p.a., wich is definetelly an almost "no-grow".
However we have here a group of 30 million heroes doing their best to produce more and more food every year, we call them farmers.
Agriculture in Brazil this year will supply the World with no less than 180 million tones of grains, not counting coffee, fruit, meats (pork and beef), sugar, ethanol, orange juice, etc
Agriculture has faced a 12%  growth in 2012, an unbelivable number, bigger than China's growth.
Many people will say that our agriculture faces no competition, and that's why it grows so fast. It is not true. We have Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, here in South America, The United States and Canada in North America, Russia, France, In Europe, South Africa, Botswana, in southern Africa, Australia and New Zeland in the Southern Pacific, even Saudi Arabia, and its large centre pivots irrigating at oil profits...
They will also say that we are deforestating, wich is not treu also. Old pastures are being renovated with agriculture, and that is an enourmous amount of land that is also producing two or three years and than  given back to cattle, in a rotary system...so here we are, supplying food all over the World at low cost and great quality, using the best of Brazilian technology to do so.
If there were a few  bad coments I would stick with logistics. Most of these grains are transported by trucks on roads... very expensive I'd say. Our ports have high costs and we don't have as many as we could have, considering our coast of 8 thousand kilometres.
So this is just to compliment our farmers, people who wake up early and work hard.
Please contact me at : andrerodini@uol.com.br