by Ricardo Brito
BRASÍLIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro made an emphatic defense of meat consumption in the country, saying that agribusiness is “good business” and that the consumption of animal protein should take place from Monday to Sunday for those who can afford it.
“Investing in agribusiness is a good business and, for me, meat stays from Monday to Sunday, as long as it is available for us to buy, obviously, and the resources to do so,” Bolsonaro said in his weekly live broadcast on social media.
“We’re never going to campaign against agro because agro, that’s where agriculture, cattle raising enters, are the locomotives of our Brazil”, he reinforced, in his first live of the year.
Bolsonaro stated that on international trips, when talking about agribusiness, he takes the Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, and that there would be “very special affection” — later he corrected himself to “interest”.
At the live, the president also refuted allegations that he would not have a good trade policy with China, Brazil’s main importer.
“Some say, for example, that I have a horrible trade policy with China. China will never stop importing anything from us, they have to. If they could buy from another country cheaper, they would. This is a reality”, he said.
Bolsonaro stated that the country is going to place even cheaper products on the market, citing that there is a resurgence of the railway modal in Brazil. This is one of the bets by the government and producers to lower the cost of freight.
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In the broadcast, the president also defended the recent enactment of the law that authorizes gas stations to buy ethanol directly from producers or importers.
For Bolsonaro, the cost of transporting ethanol “does not exist now”, and the measure has everything to lower the price of fuel.
“If it doesn’t go down, don’t complain about me,” he said, after complaining again about what he considers to be an above-normal charge from ICMS governors on fuels.
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