From January to March this year, 7.075 million bovines were slaughtered, that is 5.3% less than in the first quarter of 2009. The figures were disclosed by the IBGE.
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After four years of study, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation developed a green-and-yellow-peeled squash. The product started being sold last year and is successful during the World Cup.
Nicolini already has the Middle East as the main destination for exports. Now, it has signed a deal with an importer in Bahrain. Contact was made at Arab Brazilian Chamber business roundtables.
Representatives of the sovereign fund of the Arab country visited Brazil several times in recent years to evaluate partnerships in the agricultural sector, especially in irrigation in the Northeast.
Marins Paolillo will open a soy chaff and degummed soybean oil plant in the city of Arinos, in the state of Minas Gerais. It will be ready in 2011 will post US$ 66 million in annual revenues.
The 2010/2011 Crop Plan for the sector was announced today by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The funds exceed the total for the previous program by US$ 559 million.
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.
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.
