Brasília – Brazilian agribusiness exports reached US$ 72.3 billion from October 2009 to September 2010, a record high for a 12-month period ever since records started being kept. Now that the world financial crisis has been overcome, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture forecasts that the annual record high, recorded in 2008, at US$ 71.8 billion, should be surpassed this year, as foreign sales should reach US$ 73 billion. The data were disclosed this Wednesday (13th).
The result in September was also a record high for the month, at US$ 7.36 billion, representing an increase of 28.1% over the same month last year. Imports have increased by 32.6% compared with August, having reached US$ 1.17 billion. As a result, a trade surplus of US$ 6.18 billion was recorded in the month.
The Ministry of Agriculture informed that the products that contributed the most to exports were coffee (44.3%), meats (14.2%), grain, flours and preparations (151.5%), fruit juice (117.3%), forestry products (18.3%), soy grain, oil and chaff (6.7%), and fibres and textiles (58.7%).
The countries that increased their purchases from Brazil the most were Algeria (337%), Egypt (113.4%), Saudi Arabia (68.0%), Iran (63%), Italy (62%), Japan (55.9%), China (50.8%), South Korea (46.7%).
This Wednesday (13th), the Ministry of Agriculture also announced the value of the 20 main Brazilian crops, which should end 2010 at 166.8 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 100.1 billion). The result is 0.92% greater than in 2009. It is also the second highest figure ever since records started being kept, after 2008, when the production reached 173.1 billion reals (US$ 103.9 billion).
The values have been disclosed in a survey called Gross Production Value, which calculates the value of production before it leaves the farm, not considering transport costs and inflation, for instance. In 2010, according to the survey, the best results should be those of banana, sugarcane, orange, coffee and onion, which represent 39.2% of the country’s production value. The actual increase in the production value was 23.9% for coffee, 97.38% for onion, and 20% for orange.
*With information from the ANBA Newsroom. Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
