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By Roberta Paffaro Driving a tractor on a farm, leading employees across different functions, directing and being responsible for sales and risk management. When you imagine it, I bet you may be thinking that men do these kinds of jobs. While men are still the majority for leaders in agriculture in Brazil, research developed by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE/2017) has proven that women are conquering their space. For every 10 farmers, two are female. In Brazil, young female farmers are building a more successful agribusiness, including technology and innovation in the f...

By Roberta Paffaro Brazilian agribusiness has been highlighted over last decade for a couple of reasons. It became a major producer and exporter of soybeans in the world. In the 2020/21 crop, despite all the weather issues and late planting, Brazil expects to harvest 129.7 million tons, a 6.8% increase compared to 2020. Brazilian soybeans are the “little darling” of China — the main destination for exports. Brazil already sold almost 90% of all soybean production due to strong prices sustained by the devaluation of the Real in 2020. Roberta Paffaro What about corn? Brazil has two crops ...

By Roberta Paffaro, a Brazilian journalist, economist and specialist in agribusiness for CME Group in Brazil Definitely 2020 was a challenging year in different parts of the world. We have faced a pandemic that no economist or market analyst could predict. In Brazil, it wasn’t different. Our GDP may close the year in with red. We had millions of jobs lost, companies closed and declared bankruptcy and inflation is around 3.45% this year. The government is controlling the inflation through our interest rate that is 3% per year now. When Brazilian Central Bank reduces the interest rate, it is ...