Egypt, Libya and Algeria should collaborate with the recovery of Brazilian bovine meat exports next year, says Roberto Giannetti da Fonseca, president of the Beef Industry and Exporters Association.
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The country had revenues of US$ 236 million with sales of the commodity to the Arab market in November. The growth was 116%. In terms of volume, the exports reached 1.5 million tonnes.
By means of an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture, the state is going to provide foreign trade training to small farmers. Presently, there are less than 10 exporting companies in Ceará.
A total of 7.2 million heads of cattle were slaughtered in Brazil in the third quarter, 4.6% more than in the second quarter. The data were supplied by the Brazilian Statistics Institute.
São Paulo – A lorry offloading eucalyptus bark, coffee grounds, ashes and bird droppings, at the Pluma Visafértil factory, in the city of Mogi Mirim, in the interior of São Paulo, is a common scene. What elsewhere would become garbage, there gains value, as raw material. The company is one of the new projects in
São Paulo – Copercampos had been studying the possibility of producing organomineral fertilizer for ten years. But it was the fertilizer crisis that started the run for production of the new fertilizer. “With the fertilizer crisis, the price of phosphates rising very much, we sought an alternative, a cheaper source of phosphates for farmers,” said
The current crop should be 10% greater than the previous one, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Brazil answers to 20% of global production of the commodity.
In 2009 alone, the state of Paraná exported almost 900,000 tonnes to the region, generating revenues of over US$ 1 billion. The Middle East is the main foreign destination for Paraná state chicken.
Petrobras Biofuel has fully mastered the technology for producing biodiesel from castor seeds. It is made with 30% castor oil and 70% sunflower oil.
The Arab country imported 3,000 tonnes of maize oil from Brazil in November. The product was sold unprocessed, and the state responsible for the sales was São Paulo.
The statement was made today by the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, in an event on the sidelines of the UN Climate Conference, in Copenhagen.
Brasília – The third survey of the 2009/2010 grain crop, issued today (8th) by the National Food Supply Company (Conab), shows that increased soy farming in the country should be the main driver of growth, estimated to reach 4% compared with the previous cycle, totalling 140.6 million tonnes. In terms of volume, there should be
Brazil exported 13.7% less than in the same month of last year. In the year-to-date result ended November 2009, however, foreign sales have grown 6%.
Bovine meat exports from the Brazilian state to the Middle East in October grew 41% in comparison with September. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and Lebanon were the leading buyers.
