China Makes Giant Purchase of Corn and Ethanol from the United States

Published in AgroVenda
(Brazil) on 5 February 2021
by José Luiz Tejon Megido (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Sarah Marek. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Fifty-three and a half million bushels of corn at once — the biggest sale made by the United States to China! This raises the price of cereal internationally. And in a similar move, China purchased U.S. ethanol, and commits to buying volumes never before seen in a single year, in the first half of 2021.

If this is foreshadowing a decadelong trend that begins in 2021 in which sustainability and the environment are inexorable parts of the global agribusiness game, Brazil also has an extraordinary opportunity based on grains and the smart RenovaBio bioenergy program to carry out “the multiplication of grains.” There is added value in biodiesel and ethanol. Not to mention very interesting projects such as those in the Zona da Mata Mineira, where a macauba palm tree can be transformed into a biokerosene for aviation.

General Ed Hubbard, general counsel for the Renewable Fuels Association of the United States, told the AgWeb Farm Journal: “This would be a significant purchase. It would be something that would shake the industry up. The challenge, though, is that we have to wait and see whether or not it actually materializes.” China, Brazil’s biggest customer, has made a giant purchase of American ethanol and corn.

Is it to welcome the new Joe Biden administration? A “welcome, new president”? What makes us demand more and more from Brazilian authorities is what is already written on our flag: Order and Progress.

Let’s place the country’s agribusiness as the economic driving force behind gross domestic product growth, and science as the only solution for the COVID-19 pandemic. Less discussion and argument, Brazil. From now on, laws against illegal activity in the Amazon and commercial diplomacy for real.

José Luiz Tejon Megido obtained his master’s in Education, Art and History of Culture from Mackenzie Presbyterian University and a doctorate in Education from UDE Uruguay, and is a member of the Sustainable Agro Scientific Council.


China faz mega compra de milho e etanol nos Estados Unidos

53,5 milhões de bushels de milho de uma só vez, a maior venda feita pelos Estados Unidos para a China! Isso eleva o preço do cereal a nível internacional. E da mesma forma a aquisição de etanol, o biocombustível que a China afirma que irá fazer em volumes nunca vistos no primeiro semestre de 2021.

Se isto for o prenúncio da tendência de uma década que se inicia em 2021, em que sustentabilidade e meio ambiente são parte inexoráveis do jogo do agro mundial, temos também no Brasil extraordinária oportunidade fundamentada nos grãos, e no inteligente plano Renovabio, da bioenergia, para realizarmos “a multiplicação dos grãos”. Valor agregado no biodiesel e etanol, não esquecendo de projetos muito interessantes como na Zona da Mata Mineira, onde uma palmeira da macaúba pode se transformar em bioquerosene para a aviação.

O vice-presidente de assuntos de combustíveis renováveis dos Estados Unidos, general Ed Hubbard, afirmou ao Agweb Farm Journal: “Esta compra chinesa vai chacoalhar toda a indústria para cima, vamos ver se perdura”. A China, o maior cliente brasileiro, faz uma aquisição gigantesca de etanol e de milho norte-americano.

Será para dar boas-vindas ao novo governo Biden? Um “Welcome new presidente”? Bem-vindo novo presidente? O que nos faz cobrar cada vez mais das autoridades brasileiras é o que já está escrito na nossa bandeira. Ordem e progresso.

Vamos colocar a economia a partir do agronegócio do país como a alavanca propulsora do crescimento do PIB, e a ciência como a única solução para a pandemia. Menos discussão e bate boca Brasil. Lei nos ilegais da Amazônia e diplomacia comercial para valer, daqui pra frente.

José Luiz Tejon Megido é mestre em Educação Arte e História da Cultura pelo Mackenzie, doutor em Educação pela UDE/Uruguai e membro do Conselho Científico Agro Sustentável (CCAS).

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