Brazil invests in logistics to boost the export of Amazonian products | Video

Manaus (Brazil), July 1 (EFE).- Brazil plans to invest 300 million reais (about 53 million dollars) to improve the transportation infrastructure of the Amazon, whose products have captivated the international market, but face great logistical and bureaucratic challenges when exporting.

CAMERA: LAURA RODRIGUEZ.

STATEMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS:

- LEONARDO LAHUD, LEADING TRADE AND INVESTMENT SPECIALIST AT THE IDB: What exists for these 60 products is an opportunity and a huge space so that in this case Brazil can, in fact, sell, export, generate employment and income, and all in a sustainable way.

The region is very complex, investments are needed in infrastructure, river ports are needed, there is a logistics problem and there is also a problem of information asymmetry, of knowledge of companies in the region.

- JOÃO FERNANDES, FOUNDER OF AMAZONMEL: Our main objective was to transform these families into guardians of the jungle, because from the moment they start raising bees, they begin to protect the environment where they live. Without using more pesticides, without burning, without cutting down trees... because they know that all of this is going to harm the bees.

- RENATA PEIXE-BOI, COOK AND EDUCATOR OF THE MURA VILLAGE: So today we see, once again, these cycles of products becoming commodities of the Amazon, such as açaí.

Metadata

Date: 01/07/2024 15:20 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Economy, business and finance » Macro economics » Exports
Economy, business and finance » Macro economics
Economy, business and finance
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 218 seconds
Reference: 55014032166
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