Despite the drought, which affected mainly the southern region of Brazil, and the appreciation of the Brazilian real against the United States dollar, the shipping generated US$ 20.2 billion, 10.2% more than in the same period last year. The main products exported were soy, cattle beef, sugar and fuel alcohol.
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The Libyan government is interested in an irrigation project in Baixio do Irecê, in the São Francisco River Valley, in northeastern Brazil, and has signed an agreement with construction company Norberto Odebrecht to check the possibility of the business. The project involves the construction of 100 kilometres of channels and may result in the generation of 180,000 jobs. There is potential for the sowing of sugarcane, bananas for export, tropical fruit and grapes.
The event took place in the city of Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo. For farmers, the enactment of the Kyoto protocol and the increase of oil prices make it necessary to find alternative fuels, and ethanol is an accessible option.
The period for the USA to end the benefits they give to their exporters ended on July 1st. Based on this, Brazil asked the WTO for authorization to retaliate, but has also given more time for the US government to take the necessary measures to reduce the subsidies.
The structure, to be set up in the city of Picos, is going to process 160 tonnes of cashew nuts per month and export 80% of the total. The project is developed by the Sebrae and has as its objective the support of trade of local products.
The estimate is by the Brazilian National Food Supply Company. The sugar cane production in the 2005/2006 crop should reach 450 million tonnes, of which 218.7 million will be used by the sugar industry. In the last harvest the national mills produced around 25 million tonnes of sugar.
Brazil is the seventh largest producer and exporter of honey in the world. This position was reached due to the quality and variety of the honey, mostly wild, and also to the space left open by China, which faced sales restrictions due to the use of pesticides in the production. With the return of the Chinese to the market, however, Brazil must go after new buyers so as to maintain foreign sales.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Japanese want to invest in Brazilian meat packing plants. Businessmen related to Chuunoo, cooperative of meat producers from the Gifu province, are interested in associating themselves to slaughterhouses from the state of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, both in the Southeast of Brazil, to produce swine and poultry
A group of 71 small farmers from the city of Três de Maio, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, are going to harvest their seventh crop of organic products this year. They produce soy, maize, rye, wheat, vegetables, fruit, milk and brown sugar, controlled by Cotrimaio. The cooperative was a pioneer in incentives to organic production in the country and exports to France, Germany and the United States.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The government of Brazil is going to turn US$ 18.6 billion to the 2005/2006 Agriculture and Livestock Plan. The value represents a growth of 12.4% over the total invested in the last crop, according to an announcement, last week, by the minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Roberto Rodrigues.
The secretary general of municipalities of the United Arab Emirates, Jassim Darwesh, visited meat packing plant Independência, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and Moinhos Cruzeiros do Sul, in the interior of the southeastern state of São Paulo, last week. He came to observe the sanitary care and to inspect halal slaughter in the country. "Both factories are excellent," he said. Darwesh also visited the CCAB.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have just sent requests for price quotations to Renar Maçãs, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, which plans to start selling to the region in January 2006, when the next crop of the fruit begins. The initial sale should be for around 1,000 tonnes, equivalent to US$ 500,000.
This statement was made by the Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Roberto Rodrigues, at the opening of the 4th Brazilian Agribusiness Congress, in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo. According to the leaders present, Brazil needs to join agriculture and environment preservation as environmental barriers will be more and more used to bar access to foreign markets.
