The country has adopted a series of environmental actions and plans to invest heavily in renewable energies in coming years. Solar energy is among the focuses. There is also interest in ethanol.
Browsing: Agribusiness
The Sugarcane Industry Association revised its estimate for this year’s sugarcane crop due to a dry spell. A total of 573.83 million tonnes should be milled, a 3.7% decline over the last projection.
The Brazilian company established a partnership with the United States-based KL Energy for developing alcohol fuel production from sugarcane bagasse.
DRO produces flowers, fine herbs and sprouts for gastronomy. The company supplies the main restaurants in the city of São Paulo and plans to invest in the foreign market in future.
Professors from Viçosa are training Algerian technicians to develop the Touil water basin. The institution has three projects for cooperation with Algeria.
Foreign sales of poultry posted record-high growth this year in the state of Paraná. From January until July, exports increased by 13.61% in comparison with the same period of last year.
Exports of Brazilian agricultural cooperatives to the Arab countries grew 20% in the first half of 2010 as against the same period in 2009. The Emirates are the main buyers.
A total of 7.2 million tonnes were imported from January until July, as against 4.5 million tonnes in the same period of last year. Brazil purchases 70% of its needs from abroad.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates, plus Iran, are among the 20 leading international markets for Brazilian agribusiness. Total exports reached US$ 7.3 billion in July.
Brazilian foreign sales of the product reached US$ 392 million last month, representing growth of 25.8% over July 2009. A total of 2.44 million bags were shipped, growth of 7.8%.
The 500 hectares have already been planted in an experimental field, located 400 kilometres away from Khartoum, using seeds, technology, handling and agricultural equipment from Brazil.
The state is the main producer and the first in the ranking of foreign sales in the sector. The good performance is due to modernisation of production. Iraq, Bahrain and Qatar are potential buyers.
The projection for the crop is in the 2009/2010 study. The volume is 8.8% greater than in the last cycle and 2% greater than the previous record, of 144.1 million tonnes.
The demand in China should sustain the growth of sales of Brazilian soy grain. The Arab market is also growing. Exports should total 29.8 million tonnes this year.
