The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Blairo Maggi, said in Tuesday (07), in São Paulo (SP), that the road freight tariffs will have an inflationary impact on the transportation of agribusiness cargoes, and consequently on the prices of agricultural products. “You can already see this in grains, for example. I do not believe in an escalation of prices, but certainly we will have a movement of adjustment of the inflationary process. “
Maggi participated in the event’s São Paulo capital, which marked the launch of a study, prepared by Embrapa, which aims to identify the most efficient logistics routes for agribusiness.
The minister said he did not believe in the operation of a freight table. “It is not viable, because we are a country of very different characteristics, are various types of highways. So, putting everything in the same package does not work. “In addition, according to Maggi, the prices of the table are high, which removes from the producer the income he has,” which is already small. “
Own fleet
As an alternative, the minister said that producers, especially the Midwest, and tradings are investing in their own fleet. “There will be a trend of verticalization in transportation.”
With regard to several embargoes and trade barriers on some agricultural products in the country, Maggi pointed out that Brazil could use the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a forum to resolve the issues. “Studies have already been sent to Camex in this sense,” he revealed. Actions at the WTO may involve the European embargo on Brazilian chicken, as well as Chinese rates on sugar as well as chicken.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.