Modern, efficient and competitive, Brazilian agribusiness is a prosperous, safe, and profitable activity. With a very diverse Clime, regular rain, abundant solar energy and almost 13% of the total sweet water of the world, Brazil has 388 million hectares of high productivity fertile land of which 90 million are not explored yet. Those are some of the factors, which make Brazil a perfect place for developing agriculture and cattle raise, and all kind of businesses related to its productive chains.

According to Agriculture Ministry, the agribusiness is responsible for 33 % of Brazilian GPD, 42 % of the exportations and 37 % of Brazilian jobs. It is estimated that the GDP of the sector would reach US$ 180.2 billion in 2004 comparing to US$ 165.5 billion last year. In between 1998 and 2003, the Agribusiness GDP growth rate was of 4.67 % per year. Last year the agricultural products external sales have earned Brazil US$ 36 billion with a US$ 25.8 billions surplus.

Concerning the last years, very few countries have grown into the international agribusiness market as expressively as Brazil. In the last ten years, Brazil has doubled its agricultural products external sales presenting a Trade balance growth superior to 100 %. Those results have led the Unctad to foretell that Brazil will be the greatest worldwide food producer in the next decade.

Brazil is one of the worldwide leaders of several agricultural products production. It is the number one coffee, sugar, alcohol and fruit juice producer and exporter. Besides that is the leader in the external sales of Soybeans, beef and chicken meat, tobacco, leather, and leather shoes. The projections indicate that Brazil will also be, in little time, the most important worldwide productive pole of cotton and bio-combustibles made out of sugar cane and vegetable oils. Corn, rice, fruits, cocoa, nuts, swine, and fishes outstand in Brazilian agribusiness, which employs 17.7 million workers just in the country.

With a population superior to 170 million inhabitants Brazil holds one of the largest consumers market of the world. Today, about 80 % of Brazilian food production is sold to the internal Market and only 20 % is exported to 209 countries. In the year, 2003 Brazil has sold more than 1.800 different products to foreign markets. Besides the traditional importers such as USA and Europe, and Mercusur countries (Argentina, Uruguai, and Paraguai) Brazil has increased its agribusiness sales to markets such as Asia, Middle East, and Africa.

With an area of 90 million hectares, still unexplored Brazil has the chance to increase in at least three times its actual grains production jumping from its 123.2 million to 367.2 million of tons. That volume can be even bigger considering that 30 % of the 220 million hectares nowadays being used, as pastures will eventually be incorporated to agricultural production for its significant increase of cattle raising productivity. Brazil can easily reach 140 million hectares acreage counting on the West-center and Northeast agricultural border expansion without causing any impact to the Amazon forest for being totally in accordance with environment legislation.