The "Brazilian Fruit Festival," a partnership between the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency, the Brazilian Fruit Institute and Carrefour supermarkets, will promote and sell national fruit in countries in which Carrefour operates, like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman.
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The sector registered a US$ 16 billion surplus in the first half. The surplus of the entire trade balance totalled US$ 15 billion in the period. The National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) believes that the sector surplus should reach US$ 30 billion by the end of the year. However, positive foreign trade figures alone do not guarantee country development.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian agribusiness sector should export goods worth a total US$35 billion in 2004, according to projections by the Agricultural Confederation (CNA). If that really happens, it will mean an increase of US$5 billion over last year. In the first half of this year, sector exports reached US$18.4 billion, up 36%
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazilian exports of sugar may get a boost following the decision by the European Commission to reduce its subsidies on sugar gradually. The EU faces a number of complaints at the World Trade Organization as a result of its agricultural subsidies. According to the Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues, the
Slaughterers qualified to do so according to Islamic rules will be available 24 hours a day in 30 producing units of Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec) associates. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are among the main buyers of the Brazilian product.
The Arab country answers to 23% of Brazilian shipping, and has multiplied import between January and May this year by four. So as to sell more, six Brazilian companies are establishing a company turned to the export of fertilized eggs for meat chickens.
Technicians with college-level education will also be hired to work in the area.
After their sanitary problems, the United States and Europe will fight for their shares of the international beef and chicken market. Brazil, having won over new clients in the segment these past few years, will have to work hard to keep the markets it has opened.
Genetically modified soybeans already account for 8.2% of the legume production, which reached 50.18 million tons in the 2003/2004 crop.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – Agriculture generated 156,000 new, formal, direct jobs in Brazil, between January and May of 2004. The data, released this Thursday (24) by the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply press adviser, are in the General Record of the Employed and Unemployed (Caged). Agribusiness accounted for 15.1% of formally registered positions open
