The estimate is by the Brazilian National Food Supply Company. The sugar cane production in the 2005/2006 crop should reach 450 million tonnes, of which 218.7 million will be used by the sugar industry. In the last harvest the national mills produced around 25 million tonnes of sugar.
Author: Silvia Lindsey
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Japanese want to invest in Brazilian meat packing plants. Businessmen related to Chuunoo, cooperative of meat producers from the Gifu province, are interested in associating themselves to slaughterhouses from the state of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, both in the Southeast of Brazil, to produce swine and poultry
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem and the Venezuelan Pequiven will start studying the construction of an industrial unit in the Petrochemical Complex of Tablazo, in Venezuela. The factory will have the production capacity of 400,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year. The companies signed a memorandum in February this year
Brazil is being appreciated for the design of its products. Many brands are seriously investing in the visual reformulation of their products. The results come in numbers. Those who betted on this segment increased internal sales as well as exports.
The cities being considered to receive the Arab reporters are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. The information was given exclusively to ANBA. However, before opening the office in Brazil, Aljazeera will install a newsroom in Venezuela, in the city of Caracas, in the month of July. Currently, the network has about 54 million spectators around the world.
The idea, given by president Lula last year, will be in the final document of the Second South Summit. Information from the Brazilian government, presented yesterday at the meeting for heads of state, show that US$ 50 billion per year are necessary to fight hunger in the developing countries. To collect this money, one of the proposals is to tax air tickets.
The company Oficina Têxtil from the city of Vargem Grande do Sul, in São Paulo, manufactures summer clothes, such as dresses and bikinis, that are hand painted. The company started exporting in 2001 and already sells to 17 countries. At the end of last year, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt entered their list of importers.
The implementation of the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) will be one of the themes covered during the 2nd Summit of the South, meeting for heads of state and ministers of the G-77, group of developing countries related to the United Nations. The meeting starts on Sunday (12) and follows through until the 16th of July, in Doha.
The volume exported from Brazil during the first four months of the year is more than double what was sold during 2004. Up to now, about 1,000 tonnes have been shipped directly to the Arabs. The volume yielded US$ 777,000 to the exporters, according to information from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
The objective is to add value to the Brazilian product and increase revenues from sales abroad, currently mainly due to green coffee. Since a programme to stimulate the production of ground and toasted coffee – in 2002 – sales increased in 45.6%, going from US$ 5.7 million to US$ 8.3 million in 2004. The Arab market, which currently imports from Italy and Germany, is in the aim of Brazilian exporters.
