The slaughterhouse in Mato Grosso already exports raw beef to Egypt, the Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Now, it aims to win more clients in the region.

The African nation will have access to a new traunch of International Monetary Fund credit to face commodity price increases and guarantee social assistance to the country’s population.

Sales from Brazil to the Arab world totalled US$ 1.083 billion in January, as against US$ 1.087 billion in the same month in 2011. Imports more than doubled.