Brazilian sales in the first five months of the year grew by 79% in comparison with the same period of last year. In May, exports totalled US$ 158 million.
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Brazilian exports of agricultural and livestock products totalled US$ 610 million in May. The main markets were Egypt, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco.
Brazil should have the world’s largest agricultural production by the next decade. That is the forecast of the Agricultural Outlook 2010- 2019 report, published Tuesday by the FAO and OECD.
Fruit produced in a settlement of landless people in the state of Rio Grande do Norte are already exported to 12 countries in Europe, and may also be shipped to the Arab market.
Shipments of agricultural products generated US$ 7.2 billion in May. In the accumulated result for the year, foreign sales reached US$ 28 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Sales of Brazilian beef totalled US$ 447 million. Shipments totalled 175,000 tonnes, growth of 11% over May 2009. In the year, exports total almost US$ 2 billion.
Brazilian sales totalled 2.4 million bags in the month. Since the start of the crop year, the country posted US$ 4.5 billion in revenues from shipment of 29.28 million bags.
There should be growth of 8.8% over 2009, according to the Brazilian Statistics Institute. The soy crop should increase by 7.2%. Planted area in Brazil, however, has decreased 0.9% over last year.
The value is 7.4% greater than that made available for farmers in the previous crop. The plan should be announced today by Brazilian president Lula at the Embrapa, in Brasília.
Six laboratories of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture are going to receive US$ 25 million in 2010. The labs conduct analyses of products of animal and vegetable origin.
Brazil is not going to lose its potential for producing food as a result of increasing sugarcane crops. So shows a survey by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea).
Brazilian foreign sales in the first four months of 2010 grew by 18% in comparison with the same period of last year. Shipments totalled 1.15 million tonnes.
The agreement with the Arab country’s Agricultural Research Center will enable the development of joint activities geared towards sustainable agriculture in technical and scientific areas.
To the Sudanese Agriculture minister, an agreement signed with Brazil creates ample opportunities for Brazilian agricultural exports, from seeds to agroindustrial units.
