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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.
The 4th Brazilian Agribusiness Congress, to take place today and tomorrow in the city of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, is going to cover themes like bioenergy, infrastructure and foreign trade. The meeting will bring together around 600 participants. Brazil is the largest world exporter of soy, coffee, sugar, orange juice, tobacco and meats, and has 34% of the country GDP connected to agricultural production.
The Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec) offered, last Wednesday, a barbecue for 200 Arab importers, in Cairo. The aim was to promote Brazilian beef in the country, one of the greatest importers of the product. Between January and May, Egypt imported 60,300 tonnes of raw cattle beef from Brazil.
This information was disclosed on Wednesday (8) by the minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Roberto Rodrigues, at the opening of the National Seminar on Organic Agriculture, in Brazilian capital Brasília. The minister stated that the country has space available for the cultivation and marketing of products. European consumers pay 25% more for organic food.
