Embrapa has tested its tropical rice seeds in Senegal and found good performance for the irrigated varieties. If approved by the local regulator, they may be used by farmers there.
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Exports from the Arab world generated US$ 342 million to Brazil in January. There was similar growth in volume, as prices are not rising.
Equipment developed by Embrapa for family farming was presented to the Africans during a training course and generated interest of researchers from Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
Sales of dairy products to the region grew 34% in January as against the same period in 2011, with US$ 986,000. Exports from Brazil to the world remained stable in the period.
Production should grow 6% this crop, but exports may drop, according to Conab forecasts. Among the explanations are the good crop in other countries and logistics problems.
Mendes Ribeiro, of the Agriculture ministry, says that revenues with production and exports should grow this year. Sales of beef to Libya and Egypt surprised in January.
Minister of Industry claims that at the end of a 3-year program, the country will be able to produce all of the sugar it consumes, and that by 2013 it will boast a surplus in vegetable oil production.
The figure for 2011 is the highest since 1997, when it started being recorded. There was growth of 12% as against 2010.
A delegation from the Arab country should visit slaughterhouses over the weekend. According to the president at the Brazilian Poultry Union, Francisco Turra, Egypt is "a great market".
Brazilian foreign sales of the product reached US$ 8.7 billion, 53.6% more than in 2010. Exports to the Arabs reached US$ 249 million, an increase of 34%.
The Brazilian research station on the continent will be the first to use an ethanol-fuelled generator to supply its electric needs.
In Brazil, the sector shipped the equivalent of US$ 94.6 billion abroad in 2011, an all-time high. To the minister of Agriculture, Mendes Ribeiro Filho, a new record should be set in 2012.
Per capita poultry consumption rose in five Arab countries in the region in 2011. The United Arab Emirates led with 67.2 kilograms per person, growth of 14% over 2010.
Brazil exported the equivalent of US$ 8.85 billion in 2011. The volume shipped increased by 2.3%. The average price of chicken increased by 17.4% last year.
