The decline is a result of weather conditions in Brazil during the second half of 2015 and cheap commodities. A rebound is expected starting in July, according to the exporters association Cecafé.
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In the first month of this year, Brazil shipped 97,394 tons of the product abroad. Revenues dropped 13%. Egypt stepped down its imports by 14.6%.
In the Brazilian Mid-South, the industry crushed 599.87 million tons of sugarcane by February 1st, up 5.22% according to industry association Unica.
Foreign sales declined in volume, but revenues went up due to the rising United States currency. Export numbers were released by the National Supply Company.
Exports of agriculture and livestock products from Brazil to the region fetched USD 461.3 million in January, down 29.5% from January 2015.
Index measured by FAO shows a decline of 1.9% in January over December, with a drop in prices in all the commodities surveyed.
Brazil’s crop will be smaller than expected, but even so it should reach a record volume, according to an assessment made by the secretary of Agricultural Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, André Nassar.
Exporters association Abiec is taking 18 meat companies to the Gulfood fair in Dubai. Outside the event, two barbecues will be thrown for importers, authorities and opinion-makers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
In 2015, 13.15 million tons of chicken meat were produced in Brazil, a 3.58% increase over 2014.
Brazil’s National Supply Company forecasts that between 49.13 million and 51.94 million bags will be harvested in 2016. The amount will be second only to the harvest total in 2002.
Sales to the region’s countries totaled USD 218.5 million. In all, more than 1.5 million 60-kg bags were shipped.
Brazil earned USD 5.9 billion with external sales in 2015, a decline of 18% over 2014. The Egyptian market, however, expanded 8%.
National Supply Company (Conab) estimates a production of 210.5 million tons of grains in the 2015/2016 crop, with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) pointing to 210.7 million tons in the current calendar year.
Nearly 19,000 tons were shipped abroad from Brazil last year, up 53.5% from 2014. The United Arab Emirates was the leading buying country.
