Sector exports to the Arab world reached US$ 549.4 million in January, growth of 38% over the same month in 2009. Sugar and meats boosted the performance.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Isaura Daniel
A journalist with a degree from Unisinos and experience in economy and finance, she has been responsible for international coverages and amassed eight journalism prizes.
In the state of Acre, wheat middling is replaced with cassava or rice for cooking kibbeh. The food is named ‘quebe’ and is successful in the region, which has a strong presence of Arab immigrants.
Exports from Brazil to the League of Arab States rose 25.6% in January, as against the same month in 2009, after having dropped for some months last year. The tendency for 2010 is for growth.
The organisation plans to expand its operation with the establishment of committees. One of them should attract Arab capital to Brazil and take Brazilian investment to the Arab world.
Copa Lord, from Santa Catarina, should have its carnival parade next weekend, and the theme should be Marrakech. The school even plans to leave the ‘scent’ of the city in the air.
Exhibition at the Museum of Football, in São Paulo, features photos of football being played in 24 different countries. Among them is a picture of boys playing in front of a amphitheatre, in Tunis.
The market is growing and holds promise for Brazilian companies, according to the Arab Brazilian Chamber’s secretary general, Michel Alaby, who is in the country for the Khartoum International Fair.
Brazil exported 4,400 tonnes of peanuts to the Arab market from January to November this year, all of which originated from the state of São Paulo. There was growth of 71% over last year.
Brazilian tobacco sales to the Arab market totalled US$ 117 million by November this year. The main type of tobacco sold to the region was non-manufactured, and the leading buyer was Egypt.
The country had revenues of US$ 236 million with sales of the commodity to the Arab market in November. The growth was 116%. In terms of volume, the exports reached 1.5 million tonnes.
Brand Manufatura, based in the state of Pará, exported shopping bags, accessories and clothing to the Emirates between 2006 and 2008. Now the company wants to resume sales.
A theatre group from São Paulo has arranged children’s play ‘Wonderful Stories for Albak’, inspired on the ‘Arabian Nights’. It tells, in Arab style, the stories of Amina, Harun, Abud and Badna.
São Paulo – A lorry offloading eucalyptus bark, coffee grounds, ashes and bird droppings, at the Pluma Visafértil factory, in the city of Mogi Mirim, in the interior of São Paulo, is a common scene. What elsewhere would become garbage, there gains value, as raw material. The company is one of the new projects in
São Paulo – Copercampos had been studying the possibility of producing organomineral fertilizer for ten years. But it was the fertilizer crisis that started the run for production of the new fertilizer. “With the fertilizer crisis, the price of phosphates rising very much, we sought an alternative, a cheaper source of phosphates for farmers,” said
