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.
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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.
The first batch of the product made by company Camelicious should be delivered to supermarkets next week. The company intends to export.
However, the state did not sell the product to the Arab country last year. Peru has announced a restriction on meat produced anywhere in Brazil.
The federal government will wait until March for countries to lift the veto on the national product.
The Egyptian minister of Agriculture informed that his country has not stopped importing Brazilian beef due to an atypical case of mad cow disease.
According to the slaughterhouse, the suspension of imports of beef for six months should not affect performance. These markets represent just 4% of foreign sales, which should go to other nations.
Purchases of the product have been halted until Brazil explains the ‘non-classical’ case of an animal contaminated with the disease which died in 2010. The announcement was made early this month.
