From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazilian agribusiness earned US$ 32.4 billion with exports between the months of January and September this year. The increase was of 8.8% over the same period last year. The surplus was of US$ 28.7 billion, an historic record for the period.
Amongst the products with best performance are the meats, with a 33.2% increase in exports, sugar and alcohol, with 56.8%, coffee, 53%, tobacco, 19.4%, fruits and vegetables, with 9.8% and milk, dairy products and eggs, with 18.5%.
During the first nine months of the year, the European Union was the main Brazilian buyer, with 32.5% of the total, followed by Asia, with 19.7%, Nafta, with 14.9%, Eastern Europe, with 8.6%, Middle East, with 7% increase, and Africa, with 6.6%.
In September the income with agribusiness foreign sales totalled US$ 3.820 billion. The value, however, was 0.5% smaller than in the same month in 2004. The information is from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply.
According to experts in the Ministry, the negative variation reflected the performance of the different groups of products. While products such as the meats, sugar, alcohol, coffee, fruits, cocoa and processed vegetables, hides and shoes registered an increase in foreign sales, there was drop in shipments of soy, cereals and wood, paper and cellulose.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
