The Brazilian external sales of the product yielded US$ 256.8 million last month, when 231,870 tonnes were shipped abroad. The Middle East continues as the main market in terms of volumes imported.
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Brazilian cattle breeders want to promote greater technical cooperation between the two countries and the Ministry of Agriculture informs there is interest in negotiating an agreement of the sort. The treaty would avoid the constant need for visits by Egyptian technicians to Brazilian slaughterhouses, reducing the cost of transactions, and would give greater stability to the relations with a market that is currently one of the most important for the sector.
The shipping of Brazilian agricultural products to the region generated US$ 683.9 million in the first quarter of 2005, against US$ 647.7 million in the same period last year.
The owner of trading company El Ssad, from Libya, will come to Brazil before the 20th of April to talk to representatives of Cocarol, a cooperative of agriculture industries in the city of Rondon, interior of the state of Paraná. Cocarol already owns an alcohol plant and is starting to build a sugar mill. El Ssad wants to invest in the business and later import the production.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian coffee export revenues rose 60% in the month of March when compared to the same period in 2004. Revenues rose from US$ 181 million to US$ 290 million. In terms of volume, there was also growth, but smaller: 9.1%. Germany is still the main Brazilian green coffee importer.
The Integratet Production System (SAPI) will allow a more rigorous control of beef production. The majority of fruit exportes has already adopted de system.
Villa Germânia started selling on the foreign market last year and, next year, intends to enter the European and Arab countries. The company was born to supply the demand by the German colony that lives in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. Villa Germânia also produces rabbit, guinea fowl, and mule duck liver, used in the production of pate.
The Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues confirmed the event, scheduled for September 24 and 25, in Salvador, Bahia.
Recipe that came to Brazil with the immigrants, at the end of the nineteenth century, is the secret of the dairy President, from the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. The company produces 60,000 units of cheese every month and supplies the shelves of the main supermarkets in the country.
The Arab country is currently one of the main importers of Brazilian cattle beef. During a meeting that took place last weekend, representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Muslim Organizations in Brazil and the Brazilian embassy in Cairo also discussed the possibility of product inclusion in the trade treaty negotiated between the Mercosur and Egypt.
The first shipment – of 8,500 heads of cattle – took place last week, from Rio Grande port, in southern Brazil. Up to the end of the year, there should be another two shipments of similar magnitude. The sale satisfied farmers who, due to the drought in the region, are currently going through financial difficulties. The animals were sold at prices ranging from US$ 0.51 and US$ 0.57 per kilogram.
Brazilian rice exports should rise 416% this year when compared to 2004. Apart from the traditional markets, rice producers from the state of Rio Grande do Sul negotiate the sale of the grain to other countries, among them the Arabs. A trading company form the United Arab Emirates interested in importing the product got in contact with the Federation of Rice Associations of Rio Grande do Sul (Federarroz). Another potential market is the Saudi, the fourth largest rice importer in the world.
