Last month saw 3.68 million bags shipped from Brazil. Revenues slid by 1% to USD 485 million. Year-to-date, the volume shipped to Arab countries was up 15%.
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The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) forecasts a 231-million-ton harvest next year, up 1.7% from this year.
Agricultural engineer Nilson César Castanheira Guimarães will take his post at the Embassy of Brazil in Rabat at the end of this month. Plans include boosting trade and cooperation. He will also cover Tunisia and Nigeria.
Volume shipped was down 1%, with revenue decreasing by 5.5%. The industry association chairman, however, said there are signs of a recovery.
Saudi Arabia has cleared Brazilian genetic material imports for the first time. The Arab Chamber CEO expects to see bovine genetics exports to Arab countries climb by 30% in 2019.
The size of the population is drawing the attention of international olive oil producers. Arabs doubled their sales in Brazil this year.
The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture reported that the Arab country has approved the International Sanitary Certificate model for apiculture products from Brazil. Sales could fetch as much as USD 4.43 million a year.
Industry organization Associação Oliva and the city’s Secretariat for Nature and the Environment are holding an event next Thursday (22) to discuss the product’s manufacturing and consumption.
Foreign sales by the industry amounted to USD 8.48 billion. Soy was the top seller at USD 2.62 billion shipped out, up 78.8% from a year ago.
The coffee produced by Daterra farm, in the Cerrado Mineiro region, was used by Swiss barista Emi Fukahori, who won the competition held in Belo Horizonte.
Speaking at a conference during the International Coffee Week, professionals extolled collaboration from all links along the production chain as a means to increase profits.
With 3.74 million bags exported last month, the country saw a historic monthly volume. In comparison to October 2017, foreign sales of the product jumped 29.1%.
The leading beef exporting company in South America saw export revenues soar by 49.5% in the 12 months through September, but its sales to Middle Eastern countries declined.
The National Supply Company (CONAB) released its forecast for the 2018/2019 harvest, expecting an increase between 2.5% and 4.5% over the previous period.
