The Ministry of Agriculture estimates the Gross Value of Agricultural Production at US$ 142 billion this year, 16% more than last year. The previous forecast was US$ 153 billion.
Author: From the Newsroom
Technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture are going to visit countries that have been imposing restrictions to Brazilian beef since December 2012. The OIE maintains Brazil’s risk as ‘insignificant’.
The funds will be used to expand the collection and recycling of solid residues and to increase the sector transparency.
The sector is recovering after a change in regime. Of all the oil sold abroad in 2012, 379.5 million barrels were shipped by NOC.
Brazil enters the second month of the year with a negative balance of US$ 741 million. Exports dropped in February, up to the 10th, while imports grew.
A UN operation transported 1,000 tents and 15,000 blankets to those displaced locally.
This is the first traunch of a US$ 5 billion donation that the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should make to the Moroccans up to 2016.
The government wants to cut the international labour force down to 33% of the total population. The goal is to increase availability of job openings for Omani citizens.
The French government will make the donation to help minimize the effects of the drought-induced food crisis taking place in the country.
The throughput in the state’s ports totalled 2.85 million tonnes in January. Most of the export went to maize and sugar.
The project will be carried out by the multinational power company GDF Suez at a cost of 450 million euros. It will be the largest wind farm in Africa, and is set to start operating in late 2014.
Terminal in Jebel Ali had a throughput of 219,000 tonnes in 2012. By 2015, Dubai’s two airports should carry a combined 3 million tonnes of cargo.
There were 56 mergers and acquisitions of companies in the area in Brazil last year. Over half the business was by foreign companies buying domestic ones.
According to a United Nations survey, the people are unable to feed properly, are malnourished, or have to sell their possessions to buy food.
