São Paulo – Three Brazilian companies will go to this year’s edition of the Khartoum International Fair, in Sudan, alongside the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian Foreign Office, which are promoting the country’s presence at the trade show for the sixth year running.
The multisector fair will be held from February1st to 9th. Exhibiting companies from Brazil will be Brasil Foods, which comprises the food product brands Sadia and Perdigão; shoe manufacturing company Grendene, and Kepler Weber, a maker of silos for agricultural products. Grendene will attend the event for the third time in partnership with the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The Brazilian stand will cover 36 square metres.
Revenues from Brazilian exports to Sudan exceeded US$ 100 million last year, an increase of 3.22% over 2009, according to data supplied by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The main items shipped were sugar, machinery and other agricultural implements, tobacco and chicken meat.
Aside from products, Brazil is supplying agricultural technology to Sudan. An ethanol plant owned by the Kenana Sugar Company, the leading sugar and ethanol enterprise in the African country, was built exclusively with equipment from the Brazilian company Dedini.
A group from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso promoted experimental soy and cotton farms in Sudanese land using techniques and seeds developed in Brazil. The first harvest has already taken place and the crops are now commercial.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
