Agência Sebrae* São Paulo – Brazilian exports of flowers and ornamental plants increased by 7.65% from January to June 2006 in relation to the first six months in 2005. In the first quarter of the year sales reached just over US$ 15 million. In the same period in 2005, Brazil exported US$ 13.9 million. The
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From the Newsroom* São Paulo -Milo, a Brazilian food products company is going implement an industrial unit in the city of Ijuí, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The technical director at the company, Klaus Dieter Kurtz, signed last week a protocol of intentions together with the government of Rio Grande
The Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency and the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association signed yesterday an agreement that foresees investments of US$ 3.5 million to promote Brazilian beef abroad up to 2008. The main objectives are the new markets, like Morocco, which imports small quantities of beef from Brazil.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The presidents of the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex), Juan Quirós, and of the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec), Marcus Vinícius Pratini de Morais, are going to launch on Monday (17), in São Paulo, a joint project to promote Brazilian beef exports. According to Apex,
The construction work in the refinery, which has as partners the Brazilian company Crystalsev, Cargill Africa, the Syrian entrepreneur Nagib Assaf and an international financing company, started in the first semester. It will process one million tonnes of sugar per year and should start operating in 2008.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Revenues of Brazilian coffee sales totalled US$ 2.88 billion in the harvest year of 2005/2006, ending on the month of June. The value represented an increase of 11.7% in relation to the previous harvest year. The information was released yesterday (05) by the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (CeCafé). The
The value, referring to the first semester this year, is a record for the period and means a 5.7% increase over the same months in 2005. Amongst the products that contributed for this result are sugar, alcohol, paper and pulp, leather and leather products, cereals and flours.
Revenues with exports to the Arab market increased by 8.42%, reveals the union of producers in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – China licensed 14 new poultry producing establishments from Brazil to become their suppliers. With this, the number of slaughtering plants authorised to export to that country increases to 24, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply. The new factories are located in the states of Mato Grosso
Agência Brasil* São Paulo – Alcohol production from the current sugarcane harvest reached 2.68 billion litres on the 1st of June, a result which is 14% greater than last year, as was announced yesterday (20) by the Union of the Sugarcane Agro-industry of São Paulo (Unica). The increase in supply of alcohol fuel caused a
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The federal government will be promoting, as of this Friday (23), the II Week of Organic Foods in many Brazilian states. Up to the 30th of June there will be seminars, fairs, lectures, tasting sessions, gastronomic circuits and visits to organic farms in the states of Acre, Alagoas, Bahia,
Company Frigo Class, which already operates in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo and belongs to Briton Terry Johnson, is going to inaugurate a plant for production of stewed beef and a cattle slaughterhouse in Rio Grande do Sul. Production will be turned to export.
