**6. Trends in globalized agribusiness**

Globalization demands quality and competitiveness throughout the food chain, as well as safe raw materials without deterioration. Agribusiness exports in Brazil reached US\$ 5.64 billion in January 2015, according to the foreign trade statistics system of Brazilian agribusiness [78]. The five main exporter states in Brazil were São Paulo, Paraná, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, whose participation represented approximately 69 % of total Brazilian exports, involving soy, sugar-alcohol complex, beef, chicken meat, soybean oil, cereal sales, and coffee.

Brazil is currently the third-leading country in chicken production, behind the USA and China, and the leading exporter of chicken meat [79]. The long-term trade projection estimates a production of up to 20.576 million tons by 2023, corresponding to an increase of 46.4 % between the years 2013 and 2023. In addition, the exportation of meat has been forecasted at 4.675 million tons in 2023 [80]. Further, poultry (broilers and turkeys) trade long-term projections of the USDA (2015) indicate that exportation could reach up to 4.982 million tons in 2024.

In this scenario of globalized agribusiness, corn stands out as the major component of animal feed production [4]. Figure 7 shows a scenario concerning corn purchased as a raw material in a potential importer country. The trend for importing of Brazilian grains continues to depend on the decrease or delay of the American harvest of agriproducts due to the unmatched infrastructural facilities and the storage, transport and port system established in the United States.

**Figure 7.** Corn importation in Japan, 2008 to 2014 [81].

Even with infrastructural problems, the bar chart shows that the decision to import Brazilian raw materials could unexpectedly increase and reached nearly five times the quota between the year 2012 and 2013.

The current effort on aggregation of value in agriproducts should be combined with continu‐ ous work on safety in highly productive regions, ex. broiler chickens for export, which depends on practical and reliable analytics facilitating quality and safety. Such an overall approach could result in promising healthy foods from potential producer regions in Brazil.
