Rowena Duncum: The Country host on Todd McClay talking trade ideas in Brazil

The Minister for Trade and Agriculture is in Brazil on a New Zealand Trade Mission to São Paulo. 

Todd McClay is expected to meet with experts and business leaders to bring the nations closer together.

The Country's Rowena Duncum explains the opportunities that could come out of these meetings.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rowena Duncan of the country over the country is with
us A row Hey you that? Oh sorry, Roe, I
halfway stopped through my sentence because I thought there's something
wrong with every with everything because of my headphone. We're
working properly anyway. Listen you, everything's working for you quite well.
You had a chat to Todd McLay today. He's in Brazil.
What's he doing there?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so he's very ahead of their G twenty summit,
but he's gone earlier. I had a few bilateral trade
meetings as well, led a business delegation to Salparlo, where
there's actually about forty Kiwi businesses operating. Look, I didn't
actually realize Brazil is such a huge country two hundred
and forty million people. But we've actually got a lot
in common when it comes to agriculture. So Todd McClay

(00:39):
was telling me this afternoon that like us, their government
wants to help farmers meet their obligations around climate change,
around the environment, but without putting people out of business,
so leaning into technology and things like that. He says
they've agreed that the two institutions should actually work together
to find ways to achieve that without reducing production, So yeah,
I didn't actually anticipate that they would align quite so

(01:02):
strongly on those points.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hey, the Hawks Bay amp show started today, was it right?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's doing okay? Yeah, it's actually doing really well. And
I mean, like Hawks Bay do it well, don't they?
Tomorrow's the anniversary day, so they turn it into a
four day weekend. Like why can't we all be like
Hawks Bay? But anyway, I'm getting thin king isn't it
very jealous? But look, today was kind of like the
Farmer's Day, So the farmers kind of go on the Thursday.
The rest of everyone goes on on the Friday when

(01:28):
they've got the day off and stuff. I was chatting
to some of my mates who were there. They said
it was a beautiful day, but like there's the equestrian today.
There was all the shows and stuff. The trades were
all busy, and he said there was just a good
group of people catching up. So in hawks Bay they're
starting to kind of drift into that dry end of
the spectrum. They had a good early spring. Things were
moving in the right direction, good lambing, good carving. But

(01:51):
you know there's a question mark now on how soon
it's going to get a bit dry heading towards summer.
Today there was the kids sharing, so tomorrow it's the
great Ray as she is. Today they had secondary school
kids in their School Challenge round twenty five of them
or something. I think it was George from Natbeer Boys
who took it out. Sure three sheep in the final.
There were kids from as far away as Wide or so. Yeah.

(02:12):
Just I think a really good time for that region
to get a bit of a boost. And gosh, you've
got a love Amp show season.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah and Hawks Bay so what a great combo. Hey,
thank you for that Row, look after yourself. That's Row
in a duncan of the country.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
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