Foreigners account for 5% of planted area in the state’s current grain crop, according to local institute Imea. Weather, technology, fertile land and good soy prices attract businessmen from abroad.
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CitrusBR, the sector association, is focussing on the Internet to promote the consumption of Brazilian orange juice worldwide. The campaign aims at associating the drink to connected people.
Sales from Brazil to the Arab world grew 19% from January to July as against the same period in 2010. The good moment for civil construction in the region is responsible for the growth.
Algeria and Emirates are among the markets to which sales of Brazilian agricultural products grew the most in July. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are also among the leading target countries.
Brazil shipped the equivalent of US$ 86 billion in agricultural products to foreign countries in the past 12 months, a 24% increase compared with the previous period. China is the main target market.
Brazil exported the equivalent of US$ 669 million in July, a 3.8% increase over the same month of last year. The volume shipped, however, dropped by 13.8% and totalled 320,800 tonnes.
The Brazilian Beef Exporters Association will promote a campaign to disseminate a positive image of Brazilian animal husbandry overseas. Promotion will be made at events and in the foreign press.
Researchers at the São Paulo State University (Unesp) in the city of are sequencing the genes of Nelore cattle. Now, cattle farmers will be able to buy breeder with the desired characteristics.
The decline occurred in the first half when compared with the same period of last year and the result was lower than the performance of the industry as a whole.
According to estimates of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the Brazilian grain crop volume should be 158.8 million tonnes, 6.2% more than in 2010.
Not even the crisis in the top importing countries damages sales to foreign countries. The demand is strong and other producing countries suffer due to crop failure.
The rate concerns the first half of 2011 when compared with the same period of 2010. Foreign sales reached US$ 2.746 billion. Arabs are among the leading buyers.
Sales of the product to the region rose from US$ 525,000 in the first half of 2010 to US$ 6.8 million in the same period this year, boosted by purchases from Mauritania.
Over the next 12 months, Rio is going to test the addition of 30% of sugarcane diesel to traditional diesel. The product was developed by company Amyris Brasil.
