Among the five agribusiness products with greatest sales to the Arab countries in August, soy and coffee were those presenting greatest growth. Soy exports rose 41.8%, to US$ 29.5 million, and coffee, 54.4%, to US$ 14 million.
Author: Mark Ament
A group of students from Vértice School has created a fictitious travel agency to the Arab countries. Another team filmed tales from the Thousand and One Nights. These and other results will be part of a day of activities about the Middle East that the school is going to promote on September 23, with information both about Jewish and Arab culture.
A group of students from Vértice School has created a fictitious travel agency to the Arab countries. Another team filmed tales from the Thousand and One Nights. These and other results will be part of a day of activities about the Middle East that the school is going to promote on September 23, with information both about Jewish and Arab culture.
The Brazilian Miyuki Okabe and the Spanish Eneko Etxebarrieta started a bicycle trip around the world in 2005, and plan to end in 2015. They have already been in Europe, America and should visit a total of 80 countries, including five Arab ones. The couple is pedalling to promote the Millennium Goals, stipulated by the United Nations (UN), which include the reduction of poverty by 50% up to 2015.
The Brazilian Miyuki Okabe and the Spanish Eneko Etxebarrieta started a bicycle trip around the world in 2005, and plan to end in 2015. They have already been in Europe, America and should visit a total of 80 countries, including five Arab ones. The couple is pedalling to promote the Millennium Goals, stipulated by the United Nations (UN), which include the reduction of poverty by 50% up to 2015.
Egypt and the state of Santa Catarina (in southern Brazil) have a potential for increasing their bilateral trade, which stood at US$ 8.5 million in 2006. One such opportunity is in the textile sector, as companies in the southern Brazilian state are working hard to produce higher value-added products, and the Egyptians have high quality raw material in the field. The theme was the subject of a meeting held yesterday at the offices of the Federation of Industries of the State of Santa Catarina, i
Equipotel, a hospitality and food trade fair, has invited chef Samir Cauerk Moysés, from restaurant Folha de Uva, to represent Syrian and Lebanese cuisine in the Gastronomic arena of the event. The show begins today and ends on Friday, at the Anhembi Exhibition Hall, in São Paulo.
Representatives of the Public Establishment for International Fairs and Exhibitions from the Arab country are in São Paulo participating in the Art Mundi fair. The government of Syria is interested in bringing businessmen to other handicraft fairs and fairs in other sectors in Brazil.
Representatives of companies that organize fairs and events in both countries, PEIFE, from Syria, and Ubrafe, from Brazil, met today to exchange information and discuss exchange in fair participation.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian agribusiness export revenues in the month of August reached US$ 5.8 billion. The value represented growth of 13% over the month of August in 2006 and is also a historic record. Imports, however, grew more: 35% to US$ 824 million. The trade balance surplus in the month was
The organization, together with the Apex, is going to take businessmen in the construction sector to Kuwait, Qatar and the Emirates in the second half of November. The construction sector is booming in these nations. Before that, on September 20, there will be a seminar on the matter in São Paulo.
In around four years, farmers from all around the world should be able to plant Brazilian genetically modified soy. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and Basf are working to place the seeds, which should generate plants resistant to imidazolinone herbicides and promise to end the Monsanto dominion in the area.
Marluvas, a maker of safety shoes from the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is investing heavily in the Arab market. In January this year, the company participated in a safety product fair in Dubai for the first time. The result was so positive that three months later they set up an office in Sharjah. Since then, the company has not stopped negotiating agreements with the countries of the region.
Agronomist Magdi Ahmed Ibrahim Aloufa has developed date saplings for the northeastern Brazilian semiarid. The work has been developed in the biotechnology laboratory at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, and now he seeks companies and organizations interested in producing dates in the region.
