The first two months of the year saw 281,600 60-kg bags shipped from Brazil to the region, with revenues climbing 8% to USD 33.7 million.
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A total of 3.28 million bags were shipped in January, generating a USD 439 million revenue.
ALM Brazil Trading Company sells typical Brazilian products to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In the end of the month, they will launch a halal brand for the Arab market.
Project Arab Coffee Memories gives voice to immigrants who chose to live in Brazil and talk about the rites involving the drink.
Fazedores de Café offers a free course teaching from the production to the café business in Brazil and receives its first class of immigrant students. A Syrian musician is among them.
Last year saw 1.68 million bags of the product shipped to the region. Lebanon is the leading buyer in the bloc, but Syria came as a surprise as it placed second.
This year should see 59.6 million 60-kg bags harvested, as per a November survey from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Last month saw 3.68 million bags shipped from Brazil. Revenues slid by 1% to USD 485 million. Year-to-date, the volume shipped to Arab countries was up 15%.
The coffee produced by Daterra farm, in the Cerrado Mineiro region, was used by Swiss barista Emi Fukahori, who won the competition held in Belo Horizonte.
Sara Alali was crowned the vice-champion of Turkish coffee in the Middle East and North Africa in 2016 and, in 2017, she was a world finalist of the category, in Budapest, reaching the 6th position.
Speaking at a conference during the International Coffee Week, professionals extolled collaboration from all links along the production chain as a means to increase profits.
With 3.74 million bags exported last month, the country saw a historic monthly volume. In comparison to October 2017, foreign sales of the product jumped 29.1%.
With competitions and B2B meetings, the exhibition began this Wednesday in a bid to boost the coffee production chain in Belo Horizonte.
A delegation of business executives is being put together by the Arab Chamber for the trip. The industries involved include cosmetics, coffee, grains and doors.
