Browsing: Agribusiness
In the evaluation of the state agriculture secretary, Duarte Nogueira, it is time for Brazil to increase investment in animal sanitary control and open new markets, such as the Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese.
In the largest world meeting of soy researchers, in Foz do Iguaçu (in the southern state of Paraná), Peter Thoenes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) secretary, suggested the product be included in the strategy of countries with food problems. Also present, the president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Clayton Campanhola, recalled that in four decades, Brazil increased production from 206,000 tonnes to 52 million tonnes.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The United States Department of Commerce named the three Brazilian shrimp export companies that will be investigated in antidumping proceedings. Netuno, Cida, and Norte Pesca, the companies audited in Brazil, will each be required to answer a 200-page questionnaire, intended to analyze the company, the domestic and export market, and production
Agromon S/A, a company in MPE group, is going to invest over US$ 10 million, with around US$ 5.4 million invested by the BNDES, to increase the area they plant grain in their farm in the centre-western state of Mato Grosso from 6,000 to 18,000 hectares.
ABCZ has had its own clothes brand since 1997. It was born to supply customer demand at ExpoZebu, an agribusiness trade fair that takes place in Uberaba (in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais) every year.
Hog raising is suffering due to Russian import quotas, its main international market. With this, foreign trade dropped 48% in January. Poultry export, in turn, is rising even before taking advantage of avian flu in Asia and the United States.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil is counting on a revision of its export quotas,especially chicken exports, for the Russian market next year. Details are being worked out right now during the visit by Russian vice prime minister, Boris Alioshin, who is in Brasilia at the head of a trade mission. Alioshin says a decision on
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Agribusiness grew 1.8% in Brazil in 2003. For the third year in a row, this rate was superior to industrial growth in general, which last year registered only a modest 0.3%. According to data released Friday (13) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), between 2000 and
Businessmen from both countries should be arriving in the country on February 19. They are scheduled to meet representatives from organizations that produce and export poultry, pork, and cattle meat, informed the Agriculture Ministry.
