{"id":205553,"date":"2018-12-07T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=205553"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:40:27","slug":"morocco-to-welcome-brazilian-agricultural-attache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-to-welcome-brazilian-agricultural-attache\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco to welcome Brazilian agricultural attach\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil will have an agricultural attach\u00e9 in Rabat, Morocco at the end of this month. The man who\u2019s about to assume the post is agricultural engineer Nilson C\u00e9sar Castanheira Guimar\u00e3es, who visited the\u00a0Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo this Thursday (6). In an interview with ANBA, he discussed plans to help bring to fruition the potential for Brazilian-Moroccan trade and cooperation. Guimar\u00e3es will also serve as the attach\u00e9 for Tunisia and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a potential for increasing trade flows with Morocco. We sustain particularly healthy diplomatic ties, but although said flows are reasonable, they fall way short of what they could be, both in imports and exports,\u201d said Guimar\u00e3es. The job of agricultural attach\u00e9s at Brazilian embassies is to build closer ties between the agricultural sectors in Brazil and the countries at hand, kind of like agriculture consultants for Brazil.<\/p>\n

Job requirements include working for Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply and being eligible for selection. Guimar\u00e3es\u2019 wish was exactly to work in Morocco. Besides the chance to do good work in trade, Guimar\u00e3es envisions a potential for the sharing of information and for cooperation in technical affairs and agricultural technology.<\/p>\n

As for foreign trade, the soon-to-be attach\u00e9 believes flows of goods like sugar from Brazil and fertilizers from Morocco must be kept going strong, but increasing variety is in order. Brazil could sell beef and poultry, grains, maize, soy products, cottonseed, wood pulp, soluble coffee, coffee beans, honey, and genetic material from cattle. Some of these items are already being exported, but sales volume could be higher.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Guimar\u00e3es says Brazil\u2019s imports from Morocco could increase and grow more diverse, including olives and olive oil, fish, fruits, vegetables and dairy. He claims Moroccans are willing to ship dairy to Brazil, but there are sanitation-related issues in place, which Brazil\u2019s government is working on solving. \u201cWe are tasked with and keen on enabling that. It\u2019s important for this import avenue to exist,\u201d he said regarding dairy.<\/p>\n

The attach\u00e9 also sees said Morocco is interested in technical cooperation with Brazil. \u201cWe have Embrapa, a major global player in agricultural research. The Agriculture Ministry is very well organized when it comes to inspection of agricultural goods. Not only do we have the laws, we boast great technological tools for dealing with food security. Right now, Brazil is on the cutting edge of food security knowledge,\u201d said Guimar\u00e3es.<\/p>\n

He also envisions cooperation in other fields, such as having Moroccans help Brazilians with caprine breeding. \u201cCaprine breeding in Morocco is well developed. We must identify how Brazil could benefit from that,\u201d he said. On the other hand, he believes Brazil could provide training in semiarid farming to Moroccan researchers.<\/p>\n

Upon arriving in Rabat, Guimar\u00e3es intends to get in touch with his peers in the local government to launch an effort to enhance economic relations, find out what sanitation- and tariff-related barriers are hampering trade, and work on solving them. He considers it a challenge to advance the ongoing talks for a Mercosur-Morocco trade agreement. The goal is to ascertain what is causing the protraction and to try and enable it rapidly, as well as to enter into bilateral agreements on tariffs or sanitation.<\/p>\n

Despite being stationed in Rabat, the attach\u00e9 will also work on Tunisia \u2013 another Arab country. There, he sees a similar scenario to that of Morocco, with lots of potential to be explored in trade and cooperation.<\/p>\n

Guimar\u00e3es visited the Arab Chamber to make contact and to rely on the latter\u2019s partnership in finding companies looking to ship product to Arab countries. The idea is to have the Chamber relay information on products with potential, or on the need to enable sales. \u201cBeing specific tends to be more effective than doing broader work, in which case you might focus on sectors which are not really that important. This way I can cut to the chase, to what\u2019s really important,\u201d he argues.<\/p>\n

A native of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Guimar\u00e3es has been with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture for 11 years now. He has done work in official laboratories for inspection and control of agriculture and livestock products, covering aspects such as transgenics, food security and sanitation. He holds a master\u2019s in Biotechnology. His latest post in the Ministry was coordinator of laboratory development and innovation, in the General Agricultural Laboratories Department (Coordena\u00e7\u00e3o Geral de Laborat\u00f3rios Agropecu\u00e1rios – CGAL). Prior to his stint at the Ministry, he used to work for a multinational corporation.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaura Daniel\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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