Arabian horses, bred on Brazilian farms, are exported to countries in Latin America, Europe, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
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According to the producer and exporter association, the value has reached US$ 512.4 million in the period between January and November. In the whole of last year this total was US$ 481 million. The sector, however, is worried with the Russian decision to establish import quotas and has requested that the government provide incentives for foreign sale. Russia is the main market for the Brazilian product.
The Brazilian coffee stand at the Brazilian Week & Trade Exhibition in Dubai was one of the most visited. The representative of PSI-Café, the São Paulo Coffee Industry Union (Sindicafé-SP) export program guaranteed that never before had he been so well received at an international fair.
According to figures supplied yesterday by the sector association, in September, Brazil became the largest chicken exporter in the world in terms of values. Foreign trade this year has broken a record. Perspectives for 2004, however, are not good.
According to the president of the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec), Pratini de Moraes, this growth is due to new markets, an increase in international prices, and an international improvement in the Brazilian image. The Arab countries are also important in these sales.
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian government will follow a worldwide tendency and give organic farming a boost, says Jean Pierre Medaets, at the Family Farming Secretariat of the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Speaking at the 5th Agrobusiness Congress, Medaets declared that organic farming is important for various segments of the agricultural sector,
Agência Brasil Brasília – According to minister of Agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues, Brazil could quadruple its fruit production and exports over the next three years. From January to October of this year, Brazil exported fruit worth US$267 million in a sector that now employs 4 million workers. The fruit sector is labor intensive, creating 3 direct
Agência Brasil Brasília – With the objective of bringing theory and practice together, the Farmer and Cattle Rancher Federation of Mato Grosso (Federação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Estado de Mato Grosso (Famato), together with the state rural apprentice service (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural de Mato Grosso) (Senar Mato Grosso), have announced that an
As Saudi Arabia starts showing interest in importing organic products, this type of agriculture is growing very fast in Brazil, 50% a year.
The state has broken its foreign trade records, especially in agribusiness, which represents 67% of total sales. Between October 2002 and September this year, export for the sector totaled US$ 4.08 billion, 12% over that registered last year. Among the business partners are the Middle East and North Africa.
The region is the greatest international consumer of the Brazilian product, which started being sold to Iraq once again this year, for the first time since the beginning of the UN embargo.
