Revenues from Brazilian foreign sales were down 7.4% in September and 2.7% year-to-date. According to a specialist, the international market trend should persist in 2015.
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The first survey of the 2014-2015 cycle estimates a harvest of up to 201.6 million tonnes, according to the Brazilian National Supply Company.
Brazilian foreign sales amounted to US$ 582 million. A total of 2.94 million bags were shipped, up 7.8% from the same month last year.
The Rio Grande do Sul state-based Dália Alimentos supplies pork and pork-based products. Although Muslim religion forbids it, the product is consumed by Christians and foreigners in the Arab countries.
Exports to Egypt and Russia increased and helped sector sales revenue surge by 24.3% from the same period last year. Exported volume was up 19.1% from September 2013.
BAC, a company owned by Paulo Hegg and Gilson Pinesso, should harvest 45,000 hectares of the product in the country next year, at the local government’s request. Plantations will be irrigated and the harvest will be used as chicken fodder.
The secretary of International Agribusiness Relations at Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry hopes that by the end of 2014, Saudi Arabia and Japan will resume importing bovine meat from Brazil.
Brazilian milk and milk products exports amounted to US$ 72 million from January through August. According to a industry representative, the region has ‘very strong market potential.’
Foreign sales fetched US$ 16.5 million year-to-date through August. The United Arab Emirates is Brazil’s leading destination in the region and the second worldwide.
Cooperáguas, headquartered in Santa Catarina and with branches in Mato Grosso, sends to Egypt 30% of the brown-eyed beans it exports. The company also exports to Tunisia and the Emirates and expects to expand in the region.
The survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, covering Q2 this year, shows a hike from Q2 2013. A total of 5.76 billion litres of milk were processed from April through June.
A manufacturing complex will be built in Aqaba in partnership with China’s Chong Qing Minerals and Metallurgy. Germany is supplying 193 million euros in financial aid to the Arab country.
The Gross Production Value growth expectation for agriculture and livestock this year has been revised down from 2.1% to 2%.
Brazilian meat packing company bets on the expansion of emerging markets and is preparing to export to the Arab country. The share of North Africa and Middle East in the company’s sales increased in quarter two.
