Surveys bring auspicious news regarding the harvest in Brazil. IBGE sees output increasing by 25% this year, and Conab estimates that the 2016/2017 crop will be 22% larger than the last one.
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The event will take place in Giza on May 13. The country is pushing to broaden farming boundaries in a drive to increase output and foreign sales.
The statement was made by the minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi. He was referring to the countries that had imposed some type of ban on Brazilian products after operation Carne Fraca.
Foreign sales reached 386,400 tons in March, up 4% from the year-ago period. Industry association ABPA said a bribery scheme probe was a factor. Revenue was up 13.6% to USD 661.3 million.
Brazil’s minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply Blairo Maggi will visit several countries, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, included.
One week after the launching of operation Carne Fraca, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) association expects a decline in exports due to suspensions.
Brazilian Agriculture Ministry officials met with the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Brazil to provide clarifications regarding the ongoing probe. The meeting was an initiative of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
‘We’re committed to transparency and engaged in the search for clarifications so all parts interested are informed on the course of events,’ said the organization’s president, Rubens Hannun.
To corporate associations, isolated cases cannot ‘contaminate’ the industry’s image as a whole. President Michel Temer says that operation Carne Fraca is investigating only 21 slaughterhouses out of 4,800.
Three professionals from the Ministry of Agriculture should be assigned to promote agribusiness in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco. They will also work in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Algeria.
That should be the Gross Production Value in Brazil this year. The calculation is based on the average price paid to producers.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the poultry slaughtering numbers hit 5.86 million last year, a record of the historical series started in 1997. Egg production was also a record.
Shipments of Brazilian products totaled USD 1.336 billion in the first two months. The region was the third largest market for the country in the period.
Sales to the region reached USD 38.4 million in the first two months of this year, a 27% increase compared with January and February of last year.
