Overall sales from Brazil slid 4.2% last month, while agriculture and livestock product exports soared.
According to the Ministry of Infrastructure executive secretary, the Brazilian federal government will present in June a program to increase the supply in the segment.
The country’s economy is expected to slide by 7.6% to 11% this year as a result of the novel coronavirus, but international support and access to technology can improve the scenario.
Decline in ethanol sales and increase in sugarcane processing allowed Brazil to supply 30 million tonnes to the world sugar market.
The hike was seen in the first ten months of the 2019/2020 crop-year. One of the drivers of growth is a shift in people’s behavior towards consuming more products at home.
Arab Chamber secretary-general Tamer Mansour said during a webinar on Thursday (28) that direct shipping between Brazil and the Arab countries can boost business, particularly with Morocco.
During a live stream hosted by the Global Council of Sales Marketing this Thursday (28), Arab Chamber president Rubens Hannun said new opportunities to supply product to the Arab countries are available in Brazil, including for citrus fruit.
Brazil’s GDP shrank in H1 from the prior quarter. Agribusiness was the only sector that grew.
Learn a bit more about the history of Arab Chamber Cultural director Silvia Antibas, one of the recipients of the 2019 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture announced earlier this month.
The ABCC Lab Project launched during a webinar hosted by the Arab Chamber on Wednesday (27) will work with startups involving Brazilians and Arabs.
Saudi government will allow mosques to reopen for the weekly Friday prayers, as well as other prayers, starting on May 31, but with several rules, such as a two-meter distancing between people and the use of their own prayer mats brought from home.
An Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce webinar saw Silvio Meira, one of Brazil’s foremost innovation specialists, go over what it takes to digitally transform a business. Creating technological tools alone is not enough.
Digital influencers are trendsetters when it comes to boosting international sales online, and chatbots and simultaneous translation help in interacting with clients in different countries. So said Arab and Brazilian specialists during a webinar hosted by the Arab Chamber this Wednesday (27).
In webinar, Egyptian startup Robusta CEO Hussein Mohieldin talked about how the digital transformation ushered in by the pandemic has impacted the behavior of Arab consumers. Online conference was hosted by the Arab Chamber on Wednesday (27).
