São Paulo – Executives of Aldahra, a food trade holding company based in the United Arab Emirates, will visit Brazil to assess investment opportunities in agribusiness. This Thursday (12th), the minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Kátia Abreu, met with executives of the company in Abu Dhabi. She presented investment opportunities and Brazil’s food production projects in the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia (a region known by the acronym Matopiba) and in Amazônia Legal (Legal Amazon), where there’s potential for freshwater fish farming.
According to information from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Aldahra’s vice president, Khadim Al Darei, said that he will send a delegation to Brazil to assess which projects the company could make investments in. The company is the UAE’s leading rice importer.
Aldahra imports and later exports food products in the Middle East. In addition to re-exporting, it produces food and trades in animal feed. In her turn, the minister said she will arrange meetings between the group’s executives and Brazilian agriculture business owners.
Kátia Abreu has been in the Middle East since the beginning of this week. She attended the South American-Arab Countries Business Forum held last Sunday (8th) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday (11th), she visited the Brazilian poultry processing company BRF’s Abu Dhabi plant, and will head to China and India on the next few days.
Besides discussing the investment potential of Brazilian Northeast states, the minister made a point to send Aldahra a report with information on the South, a major rice producing region. At the meeting, Khadim said Brazil is a “very important” country for Aldahra. “I know that now we are with the right people and enthusiastic about beginning our cooperation with Brazil,” the exective said, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani & Gabriel Pomerancblum
