Exports totaled USD 100 million in September, an increase of 38%. Year-to-date, shipments totaled USD 793 million, an increase of 17%.
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Gross value of the sector’s production increased 1.3% from January to September of this year over the same period of last year.
The volume shipped from Brazil to the two countries increased in September and year-to-date.
Brazil’s minister of Agriculture met with Cevital’s president, Issad Rebrab, on Tuesday (13th) in Brasília, and supported the investments that Algerian company will make in the country’s north region.
Brazil’s production of cereals, leguminous and oil seeds is expected to reach 210.4 million tons this year, according to estimation released by the institute of statistics.
Sales to Middle East and North Africa countries increased 5.8% and totaled US$ 156.1 million year-to-date. Volume shipped, however, declined 1.5%.
Still, despite a 1% increase over August, prices of commodities tracked by the FAO remain at their lowest in six years.
This month, Brazilian chicken producers will attend Anuga, the German food fair, expecting business rounds with importers from all over the world, among them Arab ones.
Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture has allocated the funds for the coffee crop. The money can be spent on funding crops, purchasing inputs, labor, among other related operations.
The Ministry of Agriculture has launched a program to improve milk quality and make the product more competitive both domestically and internationally. By 2019, R$ 387 million (US$ 94.81 million) will be invested.
Processed coffee output in the country should reach 42.15 million 60-kilo bags this year. The numbers are from a survey released this Tuesday (29th) by the National Supply Company (Conab).
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the total produced by Brazilian crops and pastures reaches US$ 122.58 billion this year.
The country produced 725 million dozen eggs in Q2 of this year. According to the Brazilian statistics institution, it was the highest volume of production since the survey started in 1983.
FAO’s international price index dropped 5.2% in August from July. The US dollar hike relative to Brazil’s real drove down sugar prices abroad and contributed to the decline.
