The Arab country spent US$ 2.3 billion in food purchases abroad between January and July. Wheat, maize and butter were the products that grew most in imports.
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Brazil exported 3.53 billion litres of ethanol in 2007 and should ship 6.1 billion litres abroad in 2011, according to a study by the National Supply Company. The cane crop this year should be record.
Brazil sold the equivalent to US$ 6.8 billion in the month. In the accumulated result for the year, sector foreign sales have already reached US$ 48.5 billion, an increase of 28%.
The target of Bioclone, which already produces laboratory-germinated pineapple, banana, sugarcane and tropical flowers is to win the foreign market in 2009. The company is in an Embrapa incubator.
Brasília – Up until next Friday (5th), the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture is going to promote, at the Centre of Agrarian Sciences of the Federal University of São Carlos, in the city of Araras, interior of the state of São Paulo, the "1st Ethanol Week: sharing Brazilian experience." The aim of the event is to
Morocco and Egypt were responsible for the imports, in July. Sales generated revenues of US$ 13.5 million for Brazil, which has been expanding its exports of the commodity.
Brazilian sector sales to developing nations grow 20% per year. They answered to 39.6% of total exports in 2001, but have now reached 48%.
A state government project is aimed at increasing foreign sales by lime producers in Jaíba, who plant in irrigated areas. The United Arab Emirates is among the markets targeted.
The Egyptian minister of Industry and Trade, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, expressed his intention yesterday after meeting with the Brazilian minister of Mines and Energy, Edison Lobão, in Brasília.
The ministers of Agriculture of Brazil, Reinhold Stephanes, and of Industry and Trade of Egypt, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, signed an agreement to simplify meat trade.
The average price stipulated by the state government should foster product crops, which, according to Conab estimates, should reach 3.54 million tonnes.
Foreign sales of Brazilian agricultural products reached US$ 7.9 billion in July, representing growth of 50% compared with the same month in 2007.
A company named Rice is looking at investing up to US$ 1 million in production in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The aim is to sell in the domestic market and export to the Arab world.
