Seven states in the Brazilian Northeast and the northern portion of the state of Pará will be recognized as foot-and-mouth disease-free zones with vaccination.
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Brazil’s 2014/2015 Crop Plan will make the amount available for investment, funding and sales. The sum is up 14.7% from the prior season.
Company claims that ‘reorganization’ of the region after change of governments increased sales. Brazilian company manufactures grain storage systems.
Conflict and drought are causing a considerable decline in cereals output, and further deterioration of the food insecurity scenario. The wheat harvest is 52% below average.
The Brazilian National Supply Company forecasts Brazilian production to yield 44.57 million bags. The volume will be smaller than in the previous cycles due to climatic factors.
Estimate of the Ministry of Agriculture for the rural revenue is US$ 203 bn billion this year. Calculation is based on statistics from April.
Revenues from Brazilian agricultural product exports to the region amounted to US$ 2.2 billion from January through April.
The country has decided on banning livestock products imports from the Brazilian state following the discovery of a case of mad cow disease. The occurrence is under analysis.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the harvest volume will be higher than in 2013, mostly due to 15 products, including cotton, rice and potato.
The region’s share in the Brazilian meat company’s foreign sales increased from 17.3% to 20%. Overall, revenues from meat shipments were up 19.4%.
Sector organization Unica’s projection shows a drop of 16.94 million tonnes in the milling of the 2014/2015 crop in relation to the previous one. Drought will cause the drop in productivity.
Exports increased by 0.4% in quarter one, but revenues were 11.5% lower than in the same period last year. The exchange rate was a factor.
Brazilian production should reach 190.6 million tonnes in the current cycle. The Agriculture minister, Neri Gueller, speaks of ‘supercrops’.
Shipped volume to the region increased from 328,100 bags to 414,400 bags, according to CeCafé. The increase was 26%, higher than the general growth of foreign sales of the product.
