From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil earned US$ 2.1 billion with beef exports from January to August this year. The value represents an increase by 32.7% over the same period last year. The increase was driven mainly by the sales good performance to some markets. Algeria, for example, purchased US$ 69 million worth of
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From the Newsroom* São Paulo – In a visit to the government of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, today (12) the chairman of the meat packing plant Friboi, José Batista Júnior, showed to be interested in opening a slaughterhouse in the state. Since the beginning of 2003 were inaugurated in the
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian 2004/2005 grains production is of 113.5 million tonnes. The volume is 4.7% smaller than in the 2003/2004 harvest, of 119.1 million tonnes, according to announcement made by the National Supply Company (Conab). The planted area, on the other hand, increased by 2.8%, going from 47.42 million hectares to
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – A group of technicians from the Department of Agriculture of the United States has agreed to the sanitation conditions of the mango produced in Bahia, state in the Northeast region of Brazil. This means exports from the region to the country are likely to continue. Nine technicians made surveillance
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian revenues with coffee exports increased by 47.4% in August in relation to the same month last year. In the accumulated figures from January to August, there was an increase in 58.7% in the volume exported in relation to the same months in 2004. The information is from the
The value is 16% greater than that registered in the same month in 2004 and is the best monthly result in 2005. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the performance was influenced mainly by the shipments of soy, meats, sugar, alcohol and coffee.
The forecast by the National Food Supply Company for the 2005/2006 crop indicates an increase of 5.7% on the previous harvest. Also alcohol and sugar exports, products made from sugar cane, should increase.
The company Kowalsky ships about 1,000 tonnes of frozen tuna per year to the Arab country. The importer is a French factory operating in Tunisia. After industrialisation, the fish are exported to France. The company from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina sells fish also to the United States, Argentina and Europe.
The state of São Paulo was the greatest exporter, followed by the state of Piauí.
Estimates in the energy sector point out to an increase in 3 million hectares in the sugar cane planted area. Forty new mills are in the implementation phase in the country.
The Egyptians exported 148 tonnes of the product to the Brazilian market between January and July this year. It is the greatest quantity sold to Brazil in the last ten years and represented 8.5% of the total imported by the country in the period. The dehydrated onion is used as a spice or ingredient in industrial condiments.
Exports of more than 30,000 steers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to Lebanon called the attention of other Arab importers. According to Elmar Carlos Hadler, president at the city of Pelotas Rural Association, which gathers the supplying farmers, after sales started in the beginning of the year, another two trading companies, from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, are interested in importing.
Shipments yielded more than US$ 4 billion, while imports added up to US$ 408 million, which resulted in a surplus of US$ 3.6 billion. The highlight of the month were poultry, bovine and swine beef.
