The emirate is the second largest foreign market for poultry farm Gralha Azul, headquartered in the city of Francisco Beltrão, in the state of Paraná. The company produces 6 million eggs per month.
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Minerva intensified its operations in the two regions during the crisis. The African share in exports by the company went from 3.5% in late 2007 to 17.5% in the last quarter of 2008.
Syria and Egypt answer to 8% of the group’s foreign sales, the leader in grain storage in Brazil in 2008. The group posted 80% growth in general exports and 119% in revenues.
Brazilian foreign sales totalled US$ 710 million in the first two months this year. Shipments totalled 538,000 tonnes, representing a 5% reduction compared with the same period of 2008.
Fruit & Log, to be held by Ibraf and Francal Feiras, in September, wants to attract farmers, processors, distributors and international buyers, including those from the Arab market.
The Biodynamic Agriculture Association of the South already exports organic rice to Germany and England and has just made contact with importers from the Emirates and Lebanon.
The company, one of the main agricultural producers in Brazil, had 54.9% of gross revenues of US$ 185.3 million, connected to exports last year.
The funds should be spent up until 2013 on ethanol and biodiesel production.
Reinhold Stephanes received his Sudanese counterpart, Al-Zubair Taha, and suggested a Brazilian mission for market prospecting in the African country. They signed a technical cooperation agreement.
The country now participates in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s agreement, which forecasts responsible fishery in high seas.
The Brazilian company produces petrol with a mixture of 3% ethanol in the country. It is the first step to sell ethanol on the Asian market.
The Brazilian market imported 5,800 tonnes of sardines from Morocco in January this year. The Arab country produced one million tonnes of fisheries last year.
The Sudanese minister of Agriculture, Al-Zubair Taha, should meet today with his Brazilian colleague, Reinhold Stephanes, for the signing of a protocol of understanding in the phytosanitary area.
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is researching the cultivation of pears and apples in the northeastern Brazilian drylands. Cultivation should reach 30,000 hectares this year.
