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From the Newsroom São Paulo – A strike by agricultural inspectors is causing daily losses of US$ 32 million to the Brazilian poultry industry alone, informed Agriculture Ministry executive secretary José Amauri Dimarzio. According to the secretary, the government is after alternatives that may generate an agreement with the category, responsible for inspection of all
There has been a 20.8% growth in revenues in contrast to January, and 40.3% in comparison to February 2003. Among the traditional markets, the Middle East continues being the main, however the largest increase was identified in sales to Asia.
In Brazil there are entire plantations that do not use chemical pest control, avoiding the use of over 20 million litres of chemical insecticide. These farms use a bio insecticide developed by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). Use of this bio insecticide may be greatly enhanced after sequencing of its genome.
Shipping of raw beef to the country in North Africa generates US$ 35.4 million in January and February, 137.2% more than the value registered in the same period last year.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The National Confederation of Agriculture (CNA) foresees that in the 2004-05 period the agricultural sector will grow all over the world. According to Getúlio Pernambuco, head of the Economic Department (Decon), the bright prospects for the world economy — which, in his view, will grow 3% this year — should increase
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.
