RDA, an international organisation to support rural communities, selected 23 Embrapa researchers. They will be recognized for the foreign projection of their scientific work.
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The financial operations tax should not affect foreign investment in the Brazilian productive chain. The government is only taxing funds coming into the capital markets and fixed income investment.
In one of the largest gas discoveries this year, Repsol confirmed an estimated 1 bn to 1.4 bn barrels of oil equivalent of gas in the Gardón IV block, in the Gulf of Venezuela.
The 9th Datagro International Conference on Sugar and Alcohol should take place today (19) and tomorrow (20) in São Paulo. The theme of the meeting is the sector’s perspective for after the crisis.
Brazilian sales totalled US$ 105.9 million, which represented growth when compared to August. In the year, Lebanon is one of the markets that boosted purchases of the product the most.
Three innovative Brazilian initiatives are competing for the ‘Experiences in Social Innovation,’ of the Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. In all, 13 initiatives are running up.
Brazilian companies participating in the food sector fair in Germany returned with good sales perspectives, totalling US$ 1 billion. Some of the importers with which contacts were made were Arab.
São Paulo – Brazilian company Odebrecht has finished issuing US$ 500 million in bonds maturing in ten years, according to information published on newspaper O Estado de São Paulo this Thursday (15th). The rate of return was 7.25%. Rating agency Standard & Poor rated the issuance BB, and the Fitch agency rated it BB+. The
Brazilian foreign sales of chemical products returned to US$ 1 billion in September, a figure not obtained since October last year.
Brazilian ministers presented today their suggestions for the reductin of greenhouse gas in the country. Up to late this month, the government should present just one proposal.
Brazilian agribusiness had revenues of US$ 633 million with sales to the Middle East in September this year. The Emirates expanded their purchases by 131.5%.
This was the value spent by foreigners participating in conferences, seminars and congresses in the period from September 2007 to December 2008, in 14 Brazilian cities.
The Arab country is among the markets that the Brazilian plastic industry aims to reach between 2010 and 2011. The sector expects to reach US$ 2.2 billion in exports.
The international Energy Agency has described the pre-salt layer in Brazil as the most attractive oil discovery made lately.
