The most recent study by the National Food Supply Company (Conab) points at a crop of almost 120 million tonnes in the 2005/2006 harvest. The growth was caused by productivity gains, as the cultivated area reduced.
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Foreign sales of cattle beef rose to US$ 403.26 million in the month, an increase of 18% when compared to the same period last year. Shipment totalled 248,290 tonnes, 6.7% more than in August 2005.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Agriculture and livestock is the third sector that generates most jobs in Brazil, losing only to the services area in the transformation industry. In the last seven months, the activity generated 219,329 formal registered jobs in Brazil. The figure is the result of the total number of admissions minus
Sugar and alcohol sector companies from the city of Ribeirão Preto, Sertãozinho and Piracicaba, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, are going to participate in a foreign-market training project. Led by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex), the program also forecasts market prospecting and business roundtables with sector importers.
The Arab countries imported 219,000 tonnes of Brazilian soy in grain in the first seven months of this year. The volume is 185% greater than that registered in the same period in 2005 and the same as the volume purchased in the whole of last year. According to the secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, the Arabs are diversifying their suppliers.
Slaughterhouse Mercosul, based in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, exports to various countries, including Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia. One of the company units, the one in the city of Pelotas, ships abroad as much as 70% of its produce. The company has nine plants and is the largest in the sector in the south of Brazil.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil should produce 41.6 million 60kg bags of coffee this year, according to a study by the National Food Supply Company (Conab). The volume represents growth of 26.2%, or 8.6 million bags more than in the previous harvest, which totalled 32.94 million bags. *Translated by Mark Ament
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a US$ 500,000 agreement with the countries of the Mercosur, the economic bloc that includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, to proceed with the work, started last year, aimed at precocious detection of avian flu. In February 2005, after a
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), connected to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, signed this week a memorandum of understanding with the government of Botswana to transfer technology and train technicians from the country. The agreement establishes that over the next five years the Brazilian institution should
The country exported 232,000 tonnes of the grain between January and July this year. Up to the end of the year sales should reach 400,000 tonnes. There was an increase in productivity in Brazilian rice crops.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The southern Brazilian state of Paraná is going to harvest 770,000 tonnes of beans this year, according to the Department of Rural Economy (Deral), of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply. There should be an increase of 39% in the offer, when compared to the previous year due to
This represents an increase of 5.1% in relation to the previous production, 113.9 million tonnes. The growth is mainly due to rice, cotton and maize crops. These figures are part of the 9th study executed by the National Food Supply Company (Conab).
In July, Egyptian, Algerian, Saudi Arabian and Libyan imports of raw cattle beef totalled US$ 80.6 million. In total, Brazil exported US$ 355 million. Egypt continues as the main buyer of the Brazilian product.
