Average daily extraction in Brazil totalled 1.867 million barrels. There was an increase of 12,600 barrels over the previous record high, recorded in December 2007.
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According to a ranking by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Brazil is more attractive, among emerging countries, to investment in industry and services.
Exports by the sector totalled US$ 22.6 billion last year, but might reach US$ 40 billion in 2010. The government and sectoral organisations are going to discuss incentive policies.
According to figures supplied by the IBGE, in the first quarter of 2008, chicken slaughtering grew 12.2%, egg production 8.2%, and milk industrialisation 9.3%.
The Brazilian company established a new centre for personnel training. The premises, which include two buildings and one auditorium, will concentrate all of the company’s activities in the area.
According to data supplied by the Brazilian Franchising Association, 11% of franchised brands in the country are foreign. There are 1,197 franchise networks in Brazil.
World conference on the subject should take place from July 16th to 18th. The initiative, taken by Saudi king Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, will gather representatives of different beliefs.
Income disparity saw a 7% reduction from the fourth quarter of 2002 until the first quarter this year. The figure is part of a survey by the Institute of Applied Economic Research.
The expansion was recorded in the accumulated result for the year until May. Brazil imported 435,800 tonnes of the product during the period.
The brand started making passenger vehicles in the country in September 1997, with an initial output of 15,000 units per year. Current annual production capacity is 137,600 units.
A total of 1.9 million tonnes of laminated and long steel were sold during the month, growth of 13% in comparison with the same period in 2007.
São Paulo – The Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, by means of the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), is going to promote more than one hundred actions in foreign countries up to June next year, in order to promote Brazil as a tourist destination. The schedule was launched yesterday (18th) by the president at Embratur, Jeanine Pires,
Foreign sales of chicken meat from Brazil totalled US$ 2.7 billion in the first five months this year. The Middle East was the main destination.
São Paulo – Desertification threatens from 30% to 40% of fertile lands worldwide. The information was published in the Website of the United Nations in Brazil (UN-Brazil). Yesterday (17th), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Unccd) celebrated the "World Day to Combat Desertification." According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), sustainable agriculture
