Among the destinations is the United Arab Emirates, a new market for the sector. Holland, however, is the main buyer and the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo is the largest producer in the country. The sector in which shipping has grown most is fresh flowers.
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Apple export has reached US$ 72.5 million up to September this year, a value 91% greater than that registered last year. This performance, generated by the harvest of 989,000 tonnes of the fruit, should put apples in the first place among Brazil fruit exports, exceeding mangos, grapes, and melon. Last year, the fruit was the fourth most traded by the country on the foreign market.
Between January and September this year, 544,000 tonnes of the Brazilian product were shipped to the region, yielding US$ 488 million.
Based in the city of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, the cooperative exports to over 30 countries. Up to September this year, shipping had totalled 1.3 million bags of coffee. The target is to reach 1.5 million bags up to December, with revenues of almost US$ 313.5 million, around 30% more than in 2003, an estimated US$ 229.9 million.
Beef shipped to foreign markets last month totalled 114,000 tonnes, which amounts to US$ 241 million.
Coffee producers had revenues of US$ 1.3 billion with sales to foreign markets between January and August, whereas in the same period of the previous year, this value was of US$ 1 billion.
If confirmed, the value should represent a 30% increase with regard to last year. The Brazilian export profile has started changing with greater participation of flowers in the trade balance, with the development of production poles, and with the diversification of destinations. The Arabs are among the main markets to be prospected in the near future.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – The Middle East increased chicken imports from Brazil by 23% in the first eight months this year, in relation to the same period last year. The region bought 447,600 tons of chicken from the country, which means a US$ 438.3 million revenue. Saudi Arabia is the country that imports
The development of cattle genetics allows the country to advance in sales of live cattle. This market is estimated in US$ 700 million and is concentrated in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Sales of the product to Egypt have risen 105% between January and August this year, compared to the same period last year. Saudi Arabia and Algeria also showed large import increases. "We have been selling greater and greater volumes to the Arabs. The largest growth was to Algeria," informed Marcus Vinícius Pratini de Moraes, president of the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec).
