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To: elmatador who wrote (107066)8/16/2014 11:15:51 AM
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See the photograph below - this is a carrots harvest of Western trained farmer who is my friend in Russia do farmers in Brazil able to grow such yields as in Russia ?



Elmo this is not only economics, Germany Poland, Czech Slovakia etc., incur much more hardship than the US and still with dragging their feet they went along.

Brazil has a very developed agricultural based industry and exports a lot to China and SE Asia from what I read. So there is not a situation of being cut off form world markets for their products. May be they are not as effective a the US but I do not know.

The issue is that Brazil and others try to take advantage of the facts that the Europeans of which many states fear a Russian invasion similar to what it happening in Ukraine, went along and imposed sanctions on Russia which with its failed economics could not even produce enough food for themselves.

The only other solution to stop Russia from more land grabs aside form outright war are economic sanctions. It is immoral to take advantage of the real fear of smaller European countries to gain a handful of $$. The additional economic benefits to export food to Russia is minimal. Brazil cannot provide higher quality fresh fruits and vegetables that where stopped importing from Europe.

Russia if was properly managed can produce more food that they need and be a net exporter, unfortunate the central regime forces most agricultural enterprises east of the Volga into bankruptcy and then buying huge tracts of land for pennies.

If you really knew Russia you would understand the huge unexploited potential in growing row crops fruits and vegetables. Agricultural commodity price will go down substantially if the yield would be similar to the US and invest in the proper infrastructure. (See Kuban region and Rostov on Don to get an idea). The Yenisei river could provide a water way in summer months the same as the Mississippi in the US for transfer of agricultural goods to the far east.

So the problem is teh immidiate effect of the sanctions.
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