From March 26th to 28th, a fair brings together companies from 30 countries with products related to agricultural technology, poultry, vegetable farming, fish production, machinery and supplements.
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The Ministry of Agriculture estimates the Gross Value of Agricultural Production at US$ 142 billion this year, 16% more than last year. The previous forecast was US$ 153 billion.
Technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture are going to visit countries that have been imposing restrictions to Brazilian beef since December 2012. The OIE maintains Brazil’s risk as ‘insignificant’.
The countries should sign a phytossanitary agreement to allow trade. The government of Brazil has zeroed the import tariff on the product.
The National Food Supply Company forecasts production of 185 million tonnes of grain in the 2012/2013 cycle. The IBGE, in turn, forecasts a crop of 183.3 million tonnes from January to December 2013.
Purchases from April to July will be exempted from the 10% aliquot due to fear of domestic market undersupply.
The country is the 12th to impose a restriction to the product since the government informed the occurrence of a “non-classic” case of mad cow disease in the state of Paraná.
It was the only region of Brazil whose foreign sales increased last year. Revenues amounted to US$ 25 billion, up 22% from 2011.
Algeria is among the main targets for Brazilian chicken exporters on the continent. Middle East sales dropped 1.2% in 2012, but the region still tops the list of main destination for the product.
The projection for 2013 is from the Ministry of Agriculture. The gross value of the main crops should exceed US$ 149.7 billion. Soy is the main product.
In the 2012 crop, 531 million tonnes were processed, amounting to 21 billion litres of ethanol and 34 million tonnes of sugar. The figures concern the Brazilian Mid-South.
Brazilian foreign sales of agricultural products amounted to nearly US$ 96 billion, up 1% from 2011. There was an increase in volume shipped, but the average product price declined.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), sugar, dairy and oils were the items whose cost declined the most last year in its price index.
Revenues from foreign sales of Brazilian bovine meat stood at US$ 21.8 million per day last week. Sales grew in spite of restrictions imposed by some countries.
