Foreign purchases totalled US$ 3 billion in March. The performance was influenced by imports of vaccines against the H1N1 flu. Revenues from exports totalled US$ 1.1 billion during the month.
Author: From the Newsroom
Two jets of the Embraer 170 model were delivered to Petro Air. The deal’s initial value is US$ 66.8 million, but may reach US$ 146.8 million in case two more purchase options are confirmed.
Foreign sales increased by 25.5% in comparison with the same month of last year. Saudi Arabia was one of the highlights in terms of target countries, as well as the Middle East as a whole.
Brazil shipped 328,000 bags to the region in the first quarter of the year, resulting in revenues of US$ 43 million, a figure that represents growth of 21% over the same period of 2009.
The Brazilian crop should total 146.31 million tonnes, representing growth of 8.3% in comparison with the previous one. The information was provided by the National Food Supply Company.
The fourth edition of Certified Brazil fair in São Paulo begins today, bringing together environmentally correct and socially fair producers and products. The fair may be visited until Friday.
The Brazilian company sold 733,000 barrels of oil a day in March. The total for the month – 22.73 million barrels – exceeded the greatest figure in company history, for December 2008.
The country is the 19th most attractive in Ernst & Young’s ranking for investment in energy power generation from renewable sources such as wind and the sun. Brazil will grow above the global average.
Exhibition ‘Complicity – 20 years of news coverage, 20 photographers’, by journalist Bernardino Furtado, starts in São Paulo today. It includes works by Sérgio Tomisaki.
The Libyan currency reserves total US$ 100 billion and grant stability to the country, according to the Central Bank. The factor is a key one when it comes to attracting foreign investment.
Production should reach 50 kilograms of olives, a result considered surprising by the technicians of Epamig, an organization that has been researching the culture for decades in the state.
Brazilian exports increased by US$ 15.7 billion in March, representing growth of 33% over the same month of last year. Imports rose by 50% and exceeded US$ 15 billion.
OGX has announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the Aptian section of well OGX-8, located in block BM-C-41, in shallow waters in Campos Basin.
The statement was made today by Reinhold Stephanes, who passed the position of minister of Agriculture on to the president of the National Food Supply Company, Wagner Rossi.
