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From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian coffee exports totalled US$ 3.5 billion from January to November, representing an increase of 19.7% over the same period of last year. A total of 25.47 million bags were shipped, a 3.7% growth compared with the same period of 2006. The data were disclosed today (5th) by the

Exports to the Arab country leaped from US$ 12,000 from January to October last year to US$ 133,000 in the same period of 2007. In total, the country has exported US$ 1.8 billion, an increase of 20.5% in comparison with the same period of 2006. Among the Arab countries, Tunisia has also increased its leather imports from Brazil.

This year, Brazil harvested 1.5 million tonnes of the product. The volume also includes a variety of sorghum that originated in Sudan. Brazilian farmers use the original Sudanese sorghum, and also a hybrid between it and sorghum bicolour. The result is a highly nutritious product for grazing.

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Algerian minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Said Barkat, met this weekend, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, with the head of the semiarid unit at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Pedro Gama. According to the advisor to the foreign relations secretariat at the Brazilian Ministry

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Algerian minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Said Barkat, paid a visit today (9th), in the Brazilian capital Brasília, to the vegetables unit of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). According to the press office at the organisation, he was welcomed by the head at the centre, José

Joint prognosis by the National Food Supply Company and the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics forecasts a harvest of 28.44 million tonnes for the 2007/2008 crop in the southern Brazilian state. Second in the ranking is the state of Mato Grosso (MW), and third is the state of Rio Grande do Sul (S).

The proposal was made yesterday by the executive secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil, Silas Brasileiro, to the Algerian minister of Agriculture, Said Barkat. The idea is to regularly solve problems related to agricultural trade. The Brazilian ministry also announced the promotion of a trade delegation to the Arab world in 2008.

Representatives of the Brazilian dairy industry should go to the country in early 2008, by invitation of the Algerian minister of Agriculture, Said Barkat, who visited the company yesterday. According to the vice-president at the company, Jacques Gontijo, the feasibility of building a plant for reprocessing powdered milk in the Arab country should be assessed.

Said Barkat, the minister of Agriculture of Algeria, visited the installations of Bertin slaughterhouse, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. He invited members of the company’s board to visit Algeria after partnerships with local companies and observed halal slaughter of cattle, following Muslim requirements.

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian coffee exports totalled US$ 423.21 million in October, a 26.6% rise over the same month of last year, according to data disclosed today (5th) by the Brazilian Coffee Exporter Council (CeCafé). A total of 2,790,863 60-kilogram bags were exported, virtually the same amount as in October 2006. The