Shipments totalled US$ 3.3 billion from January to September. Egypt remains the second largest market, and Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates also rank among the main buyers.
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There was a 14.6% increase in the exports value in September this year, compared with the same month of 2006. The products that contributed the most to the performance were cereals and concoctions, soy and meat.
A total of 718,000 tonnes were shipped to the region from January to September, an increase of 40% over the same period of 2006. Revenues from exports reached US$ 924 million, a 70% increase. Foreign sales of chicken totalled US$ 3.4 billion in the first nine months of 2007.
Foreign sales of the product in the first nine months of the current year have recorded a 21.2% increase over the same period of last year. A total of 20.2 million bags were shipped. Shipments to the Arab countries represented 3.5% of that total.
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.
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.
