Re: China:market opportunity or formidable competitor?

On 30 Mar 2006 15:29:39 -0800, "rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx"
<rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The caution that China should be raising is that as these farmers steer
toward "high-value" crops and away from "land-intensive" crops where
does the shortfall of rice and soybeans come from?

If it's cheaper to buy from the U.S., buy them. ADM has been
advertising their soybeans being shipped to China for quite awhile.


Brazil has become a major supplier of soy beans to China to a point
where she and Peru are building a cross Andes highway from the
interior of Brazil to Peru's Pacific coast. This development is
considered by those two countries as a major force in their country's
economic development. Brazil in particular looks to her trade with
China as a means to open up the interior of the Amazon. Likewise Peru
will be expanding her port(s). Allen is right about rice. Brazil
with her rainforests, tropical climate and a large underemployed force
of poor peasants will make an ideal rice growing power once the demand
builds up. I dread what this will do to the rainforest.
.

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