Among the Latin American leadership in the overall economic potential it holds in Brazil.The industry in this country is important, but the main filling of the state budget is still agriculture.It employs more than 20 percent of the population.
main economic indicators
Football, textiles, wheat, coffee ... What country is it?Of course, the state called Brazil!Industry and agriculture in this country developed in roughly equal measure, although the number of employees still leading agro (20% vs. 13%).Still about 60% of the population works in the service sector.
in the 1990s in Brazil, there is a crisis in the economy, so investors are in no hurry to invest in this country.However, over time, thanks to the competent policy, the situation in the state has recovered.And at the beginning of the new millennium, all the experts have noted a marked increase in the Brazilian economy.
Today Brazil, the industry that provides nearly 30 percent of GDP, is the country number one economic potential among the South American countries.Despite this, still about 23% of its residents, according to the findings of the UN, are living below the poverty line.
country annually exports products to almost $ 200 billion (imports - by 187 billion).The main article of Brazilian exports - coffee, cars, biofuels, clothing, soybeans and wheat.The main partners of Brazil in the global market are: the United States, China, Argentina, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan.
Brazil industry and it accommodation
Brazil - is a country which, because of its natural features in dire need of competent regional politics.Thus, the spatial distribution industry in Brazil is uneven.The contrast in economic development between the east and west of the country is striking.
the most developed regions of Brazil is its south-eastern coast.It is here that is the main financial centers of the country - the city of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.The city of Sao Paulo and at all is often compared to a powerful locomotive pulling on his entire country.
the south of Brazil, formed a major agricultural region.West and Center - a "wild" often do not learn, expanse of Brazil, where fragments of Livestock Development.
Brazil and its industry specialization
number employed in Brazilian industry is reduced from year to year.Today, the main industries in Brazil - is:
- energy;
- mining industry;
- light industry;
- car.
In particular, the country is among the world leaders in the production of biofuels and textiles, iron ore.Such specialization of modern industry in Brazil.
About forty kinds of minerals mined today in this country.Among them, the most important for the economy are iron and tungsten ore, gold, bauxite and zirconium.But their need for oil meets only half of Brazil.Therefore, this energy source, it has to import.
Automotive Brazil is represented by numerous companies of international companies, "Mercedes-Benz", "Scania" and "Fiat".Annually, the country produces about half a million cars and buses.
Other industries are also well developed in Brazil.It is a light (manufacture of textiles and footwear), the chemical industry and oil refining.
Energy and biofuel production plants
2756 acts today in Brazil.Their total capacity is 121,226 MW.Interestingly, more than 80 percent of all electricity produced in the country on environmentally friendly hydroelectric power plants (HPP).
Brazil provides electricity not only themselves, but also the neighboring countries - Paraguay and Venezuela.
The country ranks second in the world for the production of biofuels - bioethanol.In 2006, Brazil produced almost 17 million liters of fuel, although the technological capacity of enterprises in the country is much higher.The raw material for this purpose is the sugar cane plantations which are also located in Brazil.Thus, the Brazilian economy is totally dependent on the world market, if demand for cane sugar drops - the country immediately reacts to it and produces more bioethanol.
Brazilian agriculture
The scale of agricultural production in the country is in the top three world leaders.Thus, Brazil supplies the world market is about 6% of the planet's agricultural products.
Brazil - is, above all, the production of coffee, soybeans, corn, sugar cane, cocoa and bananas.Huge potential for development in the country has a forestry But this resource is poorly mastered: it all comes down to collecting rubber and nuts.Although the preservation of the Amazon forest is a definite plus.
In recent years, Brazil has collected at least 600 million tons of cane annually.This figure is a record in the world.Cereal in the country the most revered corn: a year are harvested two crops of useful crops.
Animal - about 40% of the total agricultural production in Brazil.It developed in the mid-western part of the country and represented mainly pastoralists.
Coffee production
Brazil - "coffee" country.This is known, perhaps, everything.For more than a century, it holds the leadership in the world production of coffee beans.
very first coffee bushes were planted in Brazil back in 1727.According to legend, they were brought here from French Guiana.Already in the middle of the XIX century, Brazil suffered a real coffee fever.This plant is not only allowed Brazil to become an important player in the global market, but also stimulated construction in the country's railway network.Freight train coffee grain transported from inland areas to the largest port on the Atlantic coast.
In 2009, the country has put on the world market almost 2 million tons of this production, which in percentage terms was 32%.
In conclusion
Brazil - a country with the greatest economic potential in Latin America.The main industries here are energy, mining, chemical, automobile and light industry.Agriculture Brazil specializes in the production of coffee, sugarcane, soybean and corn.
