Why Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse

Brazil's agriculture is dominated by crops such as rice, soybeans, cassava, sugar cane, wheat, and potatoes.

Further information: The Western Federal Republic (English: thefederativerepublicofbrazil, repúblicafederativadobrasil, Portuguese:

República federativadobrasil), abbreviated as Brazil, the country's name is derived from Brazilian rosewood. It is the largest country in South America and enjoys the reputation of "Football Kingdom". The total land area is 10,000 square kilometers, ranking fifth in the world.

Total population of 100 million (2017). It shares borders with 10 countries: Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Brazil is divided into 26 states and 1 federal district, with municipalities under the state.

1. The utilization rate of agricultural resources is low, and the potential for increasing yield is great. Brazil is blessed with abundant agricultural resources, such as land, biological and water resources. Brazil is still in the stage of "expanding its agricultural frontiers", and the area of arable land is still expanding.

The famous "savanna" in Brazil's central and western regions accounts for 21% of the country's land area, and its total arable land area is 100 million hectares.

In the past 20 years, Brazil's arable land has increased every year, from 34.4 million hectares to 49.5 million hectares, but it still accounts for only 6% of the country's land area, per capita hectares (acres). Brazil's agricultural output has great potential, and some experts even believe that Brazil will be the "breadbasket of the world in the 21st century".

2. Agriculture is dominated by export products, but grain still needs to be imported. **Encourage the production of export crops such as soybeans to earn more foreign exchange and reduce over-reliance on traditional export crops such as coffee and cocoa. Agriculture remains one of the country's main industries in which foreign exchange is earned.

3. The main agriculture of large estates and the small envy of the peasants coexist, and the regional development is extremely unbalanced. The land tenure situation in Brazil is extremely uneven. Most of the country's fertile land is in the hands of the owners of large estates, and its scale is astonishingly large, and the largest can reach tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of hectares.

They operate modern commercial farms that produce soybeans, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa and other agricultural products for export.

On the other hand, 85% of the total number of farms are subsistence smallholders, mainly producing cassava, black beans, etc., with low labor productivity and economic income. In addition, there are 12 million landless peasants in Brazil, who live at the bottom of society, most of whom remain in abject poverty.

1. The utilization rate of agricultural resources is low, and the potential for increasing yield is great.

2. Agriculture is dominated by export products, but grain still needs to be imported.

3. The coexistence of large manor owners and small farmers, and the development of the region is extremely unbalanced.

It is concentrated in the southeast coastal area.

The reason: densely populated and with a large workforce.

Tropical economic parks are prevalent, and a large number of cash crops such as cocoa and coffee are cultivated.

1) From the table, the proportion of grain planting area in arable land in Brazil is lower than that in China, and comparing the arable land area and grain production of China and Brazil, it can be judged that Brazil's grain yield is not high, and the potential is large

2) As you can see from the data in the figure, the precipitation in Brazil in January and July.

The difference is large in most parts of Brazil with a savannah climate.

Affected by the equatorial low pressure belt, the trade wind belt, and the subtropical high pressure belt.

(3) From the two aspects of favorable and unfavorable, the favorable highlights the promotion of cultural exchanges, and the disadvantages are mainly considered from the social impact

Therefore, the answer is: 1) the amount of reserve cultivated land is large (the area of land that can be reclaimed is wide); The yield is low, and there is great potential for the development of agricultural technology

2) There was more precipitation in January and less precipitation in July; In January, most of the area was controlled by the equatorial low pressure zone; In July, most areas were controlled by the trade wind belt and the subtropical high pressure belt

3) Advantageous: Promote cultural exchanges (national traditional culture.

conservation and development; promote infrastructure development); Disadvantage: Bringing hidden dangers to social security (adverse effects on the health of local residents).