SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — Brazil is hopeful China will authorize more local meat exporters before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Brazil next month, as the South American country seeks to position itself as a major food exporter to the world’s most populous nation.
“More meat plant approvals may happen in the few days that separate a visit by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to China from the visit of the Chinese president to Brazil,” said Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias in a video posted on Twitter on Oct. 31.
In September, China granted export licences to 25 Brazilian meatpacking plants.
“Demand is huge. So the meatpackers which prepared and meet Chinese protocols will have opportunity (to export),” Dias said.
