Author: Silvia Lindsey
Agência Brasil* Brasilia – The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, inaugurates today (19) an experimental biodiesel unit of Petrobras located in Guamaré, coastal city located in the northern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte. With daily production capacity of 3,000 litres of biodiesel, using vegetable oils as raw materials, the new
Tritat Khaled, owner of a great furniture distributor in Algeria was in Brazil for an international business roundtable with companies from the furniture hub of Arapongas, city in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. The furniture factory Moval, which participated in the meeting, is already adapting their products to the needs of the Arab importer.
The value of exports in the first four months of 2006 is four times greater than in the same period in 2005. Saudi Arabia is the greatest importer of Brazilian juice among the Arab countries, having spent US$ 2.2 million on the product up to April.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is receiving project plans in advanced biology and its applications in agribusiness. The total value of resources directed is of US$ 8.35 million. The researches in biotechnology have as their aim exploiting genetic variability that exists in biodiversity. This allows for generating alternatives
The Cooperative Grande Sertão, from the city of Montes Claros in Brazil, invests in the production of varieties such as the fruits pequi and umbu and, in this way, improves the income of farmers and preserves the environment in the savannahs in midwestern and northeastern Brazil. Currently the production is of 80 tonnes of pulp per crop. The aim is to increase the production to 120 tonnes in 2007.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The president of the United States, George W. Bush, asked the American congress, last week, to analyse suspending the import tariff on Brazilian ethanol. Currently it is of US$ 0.54 per gallon of 3.78 litres. "Ending the tariff will allow the import of foreign ethanol and this will help
