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.
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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.
The value corresponds to the month of July, when foreign sales of the product recorded a 106% increase over the same month of last year. A total of 284,00 tonnes were shipped, 53% more than in the same period of 2006. The main buyer was the Middle East.
The 1st Brazilian National Conference on Fighting Desertification, which started yesterday and will continue until tomorrow, in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, is going to study ways of combating the degradation of arid, semiarid, and subhumid regions. The process affects regions inhabited by 44 million people in Brazil.
Agência Sebrae* Brasília – Brazilian honey exports continue to grow in the accumulated result for the year. Despite the maintenance of the European embargo on Brazilian honey and the slowdown in exports during the months of June and July, there has been a slight increase in export value in the first seven months of this
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Meat exports from Brazil reached US$ 6.1 billion in the first seven months of this year. Foreign sales of the soy complex (chaff, oil and grain) totalled US$ 6.7 billion. Soy has been the main product in the Brazilian export basket since 1989, when the historical series was initiated.
