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.
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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.
Agriculture and livestock sales to the region increased by 2.7% year-on-year in August. The industry’s total exports saw a 12.5% decline.
Agriculture and livestock sales to the region are up 2.7% August-on-August. The sector exports as a whole dropped by 12.5% in the same period.
From January through August, Brazil exported 23.62 million 60-kilogram bags of the product. Revenues were up 14.6% to US$ 4 billion. Sales to Arab countries were up 7%.
Brazil purchased 2.7 million tonnes from countries in the region from January through July this year, up 19.8% from the same period last year. Morocco was the leading supplier. Brazil’s global fertilizer imports were up 12.8%.
A project with Algerian investment in Brazil and another with Brazilian investment in Sudan have been presented at the Brazil-Africa Forum this Friday in Fortaleza, Ceará.
The decision was announced after a meeting between the Agriculture ministers of Brazil, Neri Geller, and of the Arab country, Adel El-Betagy. Egypt’s minister of Commerce denounced anti-dumping on glass.
