São Paulo – The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) is hosting the webinar “Morocco and Brazil: Agribusiness Connecting Continents,” on Wednesday (9) featuring specialists from both countries. Registration is open, free of charge, and simultaneous translation into Portuguese and English will be available.
Brazil has intensified agricultural exports to Morocco, including maize, sugar, soy and coffee. Year-to-date through July, USD 319 million worth products were sold to the Arab country, up 34.6% from a year ago. Brazil is also importing more from the Arab country, including fertilizers, phosphate (pictured above), ammonia and sardine. Year-to-date through July, Brazil imported USD 589.8 million worth in products from Morocco, up 20.8% year on year.
According to ABCC secretary-general Tamer Mansour, the growth is a result of a governmental relation effort between the two countries. “I believe governmental relations are improving, and I see a great opportunity to sign cooperation and investment agreements, and even a Mercosur-Morocco agreement in the near future,” he said.
The webinar will be focused on the agricultural market, since it was the one that saw the highest growth over the last months, but will also delve into logistics, investments and other topics. Therefore, the event is open to all sectors interested in doing business with morocco.
The opening session will feature Brazil’s ambassador to Rabat, Julio Bitelli; Morocco’s ambassador to Brasília, Nabil Adghoghi, and ABCC president Rubens Hannun.
The lecture “Strategic and complementary markets in the agribusiness chain: Innovation, expertise exchange, and trade diversification” will feature five panelists. Researcher, manager and international coordinator at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Alexandre Morais do Amaral, will discuss Brazilian agriculture and opportunities of partnerships in innovation and technology. Brazil’s agricultural attaché in Morocco, Nilson César Castanheira Guimarães, will talk about strengthening and reinforcing economic complementariness between the countries.
Representing OCP in Brazil, Morocco’s largest fertilizer manufacturer, head Olavio Takenaka talks about Brazil as a strategic market. Complementariness in agribusiness, its opportunities and challenges, will be addressed by Brazilian Machinery Builders´ Association (ABIMAQ) foreign market executive director Patrícia Gomes and agricultural machinery company Jacto commercial manager Gustavo Serizawa.
The lectures will be moderated by ABCC institutional relations manager Fernanda Baltazar. At the end of the talks, the webinar will open for questions from the audience.
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Webinar “Morocco and Brazil: Agribusiness Connecting Continents”
September 9, Wednesday, 9 am (BRT)
Registration available
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
