São Paulo – Project Emap, the acronym for Egyptian Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, will bring 14 enterprises to São Paulo to deal with Brazilian companies. Business matchmaking rounds will take place at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce headquarters on the 24th this month.
The project promotes exports of spices, medicinal herbs and raw material for perfumes from Egypt. It is a partnership between the governments of Egypt and Switzerland, managed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido).
The Arab Brazilian Chambers CEO Michel Alaby and Government Relations executive Tamer Mansour attended a meeting this Tuesday (18th), in Cairo, with the project’s general coordinator, Mahmoud Abdelsalam, and business development consultant Dalia Kabeel.
The delegation is expected to arrive in Brazil on the 22nd, and some of the businessmen plan on visiting the Brazilian editions of the food fair Sial, due from June 25th to 28th, and the organics fair Biofach, due from June 27th to 30th, both in São Paulo.
Alaby and Mansour also met with the head of the Veterinary Quarantine Department at Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture, Youssef Mandouh Shalby, who informed that bovine meat from the Brazilian state of Paraná should be cleared in July. Imports from the state were suspended after the Brazilian government reported that an animal which died in 2010 carried the agent that causes mad cow disease, although it did not develop the condition, and was thus considered a “non-classic” case.
The Arab Brazilian Chamber delegates also met with executives from the Ragab group, which owns 40 supermarkets, and the CEO of the Frozen Food Importers Association, Ahmed Tarek Abdo.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
