Brazil’s Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Carlos Favaro, who is on an official visit to Tokyo, said Brazil sought to “strengthen” bilateral ties with Japan amid Japan’s trade sanctions against several Brazilian countries.for Avian Influenza.
“Brazil is one of the few chicken producing countries where avian influenza has not occurred on commercial farms. There is an active horizontal system between public and private powers, which makes the sector an efficient, competitive and transparent one”, Fava Luo explained at a press conference held today at the Brazilian embassy in Brazil. Tokyo.
The minister’s remarks coincided with the end of Brazil’s mission to Japan, which aimed to restore trade levels between the two countries 15 or 20 years ago, a plan pushed by Brazil’s president’s new executive, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
In this sense, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries emphasized that the Japanese government must lift the suspension of chicken imports from the states of Espirito Santo and Santa Catarina due to outbreaks of bird flu in several farms.
The moratorium, which came into effect a few weeks ago, particularly affects Santa Catarinamostly from the state chicken production sent to the Asian country, so the Brazilian executive requested that the suspension be limited to specific cities rather than entire states.
“The trade relationship between Brazil and Japan is very balanced, it is good for both countries, look for reciprocity and balance in this exchange,” Favaro added, saying they seek commercial action not only to increase imports of chicken meat , also increased imports of eggs, pigs and cattle.
The minister also stressed that his country was not seeking to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to better position itself in other markets, but to play a role in favor of peace.
“It is opportunistic for Brazil to see this as an opportunity, President Lula has a role to play in finding peace and we are concerned about the risk of starvation caused by this war and shortages in places like Africa or Eastern Europe.”, Favaro concluded.