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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.
Foreign sales of the product presented an increase of 15.5% in the first seven months of this year. Shipment totalled 1.29 million tonnes, 2.3% more than in the same period last year.
Goat milk may be used in the production of various medications. In the aim of researchers are immune deficiencies, like Aids or those acquired through radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and the lesions caused by a myocardial infarction.
Shipments yielded US$ 5.2 billion, 28% more than in the same month last year. The increase was much higher than the average in the first semester, which was of 5.7%.
The statement is from the researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Aliomar Gabriel da Silva. The country managed to adapt crops of temperate climates like soy, originally from China, and grapes in hot, humid and rainy areas, and is now a world reference in the field.
