The forecast was made by the National Food Supply Company for the 2007-2008 season, which is now at an early stage of planting. The grain harvest may reach 138 million tonnes, an increase of 5.2% over the previous harvest.
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The Aguacerito Leather Comércio de Couro company, based in the municipality of Poconé, in the midwestern state of Mato Grosso, has obtained credit to build a slaughterhouse for caimans and fish. It will also carry out the construction of a tannery and a structure comprised of a souvenir shop and a restaurant to receive tourists. The slaughterhouse will be accredited to export.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is going to establish a partnership with the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD). The two organisations are going to establish the International Consortium of Advanced Biology (CIBA). The consortium is going to manage studies developed by the Embrapa and the
Foreign sales of the product generated revenues of US$ 2.9 billion from January until August, an increase of 20% over the same period of 2006. Volume-wise, exports have increased by 14.6%, to stand at 1.77 million tonnes.
Caliman farm, the owner of the largest papaya plantation in the country, wants the foreign market to stop considering the fruit exotic and to consume it frequently, as is the case with mango and pineapple. The company, which invests 500,000 Brazilian reais (US$ 250,000) per year in research and technology, was the first Brazilian organisation to develop hybrid papaya seeds.
Among the five agribusiness products with greatest sales to the Arab countries in August, soy and coffee were those presenting greatest growth. Soy exports rose 41.8%, to US$ 29.5 million, and coffee, 54.4%, to US$ 14 million.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian agribusiness export revenues in the month of August reached US$ 5.8 billion. The value represented growth of 13% over the month of August in 2006 and is also a historic record. Imports, however, grew more: 35% to US$ 824 million. The trade balance surplus in the month was
Agronomist Magdi Ahmed Ibrahim Aloufa has developed date saplings for the northeastern Brazilian semiarid. The work has been developed in the biotechnology laboratory at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, and now he seeks companies and organizations interested in producing dates in the region.
Brazilian cheese sales to the Arab market grew by 20.2% from January until July this year in comparison with the same period of 2006, and stood at US$ 894,000. The countries in the region that consumed Brazilian cheese the most during the period were Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian wheat production should double this year, to reach four million tonnes. The forecast was made last week, during a meeting of the Sector Chamber for the Production Chain of Winter Crops, in the city of Esteio, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The
This week, tax exemption was approved for imports of goat and sheep hides and skins for the shoe industry. Foreign suppliers include Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria, which exported to Brazil, from January until July, US$ 1.34 million in hides and skins.
Exports of agriculture and cattle raising products from Brazil to the Arab world reached US$ 2.5 billion between January and July this year, a value 20.8% greater than recorded in the same months of last year. Items such as dairy products, tobacco, coffee, cereals, fruits, and meats are among those whose sales to the region grew the most during the period.
