The Gross Domestic Product of agribusiness in the state of Minas Gerais should reach 71 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 42.8 billion) in 2008. In January, the sector grew 1.18% over the same month last year, above the national average.
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Brazilian exports of ground and milled coffee to Saudi Arabia grew 316% in volume and 291.8% in revenues in the first quarter this year, compared with the same period in 2007. The Arab country was the 12th largest buyer of coffee sold under Brazilian brands in foreign countries.
The country increased exports of industrialized coffee by 145% in the first quarter of this year as against the same quarter in 2007. Sales abroad totalled 1,700 tonnes of products. Total revenues were US$ 9.2 million.
Agência Brasil* São Paulo – The next sugarcane crop (2008/2009) should be the largest in the history of Brazil, totalling 498.1 million tonnes harvested. The estimate was disclosed today (17th) by the São Paulo Sugarcane Agroindustry Union (Unica). According to projections by the organisation, the crop that initiated this month is going to be 16%
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazil will have to persuade approximately 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries that biofuels production is not a threat to food security in the region. According to the minister of Agrarian Development, Guilherme Cassel, this should be the stance adopted by the country in the 30th Regional Conference of the United
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian agribusiness exports reached US$ 4.776 billion in March and exceeded in 6.4% those of March 2007. In the accumulated result for the last 12 years, the value is record, US$ 60.5 billion. Excluding the US$ 837 million in imports, the March surplus was US$ 3.939 billion. In the first quarter,
The Brazilian grain crop should total 140.8 million tonnes this year, according to the National Food Supply Company. This means an increase of 40 million tonnes over a six-year period. Maize and soy should lead the good performance of Brazil for the current crop (2007/2008).
In 2007, out of 423,700 tonnes exported, the Middle East and North Africa answered to 283,700 tonnes, or 67%. Revenues reached US$ 336 million from a total of US$ 503 million.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil plans to increase wheat production to 7.1 million tonnes up to 2012. The intention is for national production to answer to 60% of consumption. The proposal is part of the Five Year Plan for Support to Wheat Farming, which is being discussed by representatives of the wheat sector
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian coffee is going to undergo a new process of identification and qualification of grain and of the ground product. A decree published today (25) by the Secretariat for Agricultural Defence at the Ministry of Agriculture is starting a public consultation regarding technical regulation of the new rules. The measures to
The government plans to build a 920-kilometre pipeline from Mato Grosso (MW Brazil) to Paranaguá Port, in Paraná (S). The idea is to make possible the export of the excess alcohol that the country produces. Brazil is the second main world producer of alcohol, with 22 billion litres a year.
According to a survey disclosed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Brazilian agricultural income should total 143 billion reals (US$ 84.2 billion) in 2008. The figure takes into account the increase in product prices and the amounts produced. Sugarcane, maize and soybean crops represent 57.3% of that value.
Importers from the Emirates and Saudi Arabia sought Brazilian organic products at Biofach, a fair for the sector held in late February in Germany. A Saudi buyer purchased coffee from a farmer based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. In all, family farmers from Brazil closed deals worth US$ 2.6 million in the fair.
