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$267 million in a sector that now employs 4 million workers. The fruit sector is labor intensive, creating 3 direct
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Agência Brasil Brasília – With the objective of bringing theory and practice together, the Farmer and Cattle Rancher Federation of Mato Grosso (Federação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Estado de Mato Grosso (Famato), together with the state rural apprentice service (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural de Mato Grosso) (Senar Mato Grosso), have announced that an
As Saudi Arabia starts showing interest in importing organic products, this type of agriculture is growing very fast in Brazil, 50% a year.
The state has broken its foreign trade records, especially in agribusiness, which represents 67% of total sales. Between October 2002 and September this year, export for the sector totaled US$ 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.
Brazilian export to the Gulf country had a 39% increase when compared to the same period last year, informed the Agriculture Ministry. The accumulated result for the year (January to October) is US$ 221.7 million, while in 2002 the volume was US$ 181.4 million.
Agência Brasil Brasília – To avoid the risk of having meat and vegetable exports prohibited, the Brazilian government is rushing to implant a tracking system in the country by the end of 2004. 2005 is the deadline set by the European Union. The acting Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply, Amauri Dimarzo, said on Monday
In 2004 Brazil should produce 1.1 million tons and export approximately 400,000, a 116% growth in international trade. Domestic producers are pleased with the commodity price increase on the international market.
The good agribusiness performance in Brazil, especially in soy, has caused a rise in fertilizer consumption, which is produced with from raw materials imported from the Arab countries. This year there has already been a 17.7% increase in the purchase of these substances from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco.
This year international sales of Brazilian honey should surpass 2002 sales in 40%. This performance, which is greatly due to a drop in Chinese export because of product contamination, has stimulated the apparition of many small apiaries. Apart from supplying to markets such as the European and the North American, the producers want to invest in new destinations, such as the Arab countries.
Agência Brasil Brasília – A Chinese technical mission will arrive in Brazil on November 14, to inspect slaughterhouses in the country and authorize the expansion of Brazilian meat exports to that country. This is one of the results of the week-long visit by the Minister of Agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues, to China. During the past 12
