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| Carvalho, Maria Auxiliadora de; Silva, Cesar Roberto Leite da; Ghilardi, Arthur Antonio. |
| The high Brazilian external dependence turns the persecution for foreign reserves a permanent concern. This paper analyzes soybean competitiveness after 1990 as it led Brazilian agricultural exports and became its main exchange value source. By using several indicators it concludes for an increasing competitiveness of the grain and decreasing for cake of soybeans since 1997. During the ninety decade there were expressive increases of crop productivity, but after that the production was due to area increases; from 1991 to 2003 doubled the share of inputs (fertilizers, corrective and pesticides) in the production cost, the expense with those imported inputs was multiplied by ten, while soybean and its derived product export value was multiplied by four; the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Competitiveness; Agriculture; Soybean; External market; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56727 |
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