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Brazil sold the equivalent to US$ 287 million in agricultural products to the region in the month. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria were the main markets. In the accumulated result for the year, the shipment generated US$ 3.1 billion, growth of 24% in comparison to the same period in 2004.

Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Yesterday the BioFach opened its doors in Rio de Janeiro. It is the most important international organic products fair, a sector that had worldwide sales of US$26.5 billion last year. The fair runs until Friday (18) and will count on the presence of 200 Brazilian and foreign expositions. The

The percentage was well above the growth of sector exports as a whole, 16.9% in the month. Revenues reached US$ 292 million. Between January and October, sales grew 24% over the same period in 2004 and reached US$ 2.8 billion. Coffee and sugar were some of the products that presented an increase in shipment.

Sector sales reached US$ 36.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, a record for the period. The growth was 9.6%. In October, agribusiness exports registered revenues of US$ 3.7 billion, with growth of 16.9% over the same month in 2004.

Agencia Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Next year’s agricultural harvest may reach 126.634 million tons. In 2005, production totaled 112.862 million tons. These numbers are part of the first estimate for the 2006 national production of cereals, leguminous, and oleaginous plants, announced this Tuesday (08), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil and China are going to establish a partnership for production of edible and medical mushrooms in Brazil. The director of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Sílvio Crestana, and the vice president of Longyan University, Lin Yuexin, signed the technical cooperation agreement on Friday (4). Yuexin is part

Agência Brasil* Brasília – The estimate for grain production in the 2005/2006 crop, published today (03) by the National Food Supply Company (Conab), expects growth of up to 10% in the Brazilian production, when compared to last year. The forecast is that grain production should reach 124.9 million tonnes. Last year, the country produced 113.5