{"id":213820,"date":"2019-05-10T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213820"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:39:44","slug":"brazil-becomes-2nd-biggest-maize-exporter-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-becomes-2nd-biggest-maize-exporter-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil becomes second biggest maize exporter in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 A report released this Thursday (9) in Rome by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAO<\/a>) shows that Brazil\u2019s quickly increasing maize output has made it the second biggest exporter of the cereal in the world. Ten years ago, the country used to account for just 1% of worldwide maize sales. That rate is now 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Arab countries are relevant markets, having purchased USD 229 million worth of product year-to-date through April, up 81.3% year-on-year according to data from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report also notes that India led sugar production for the second year in a row, outdoing Brazil once again \u2013 although the latter remains the biggest sugar exporter.<\/p>\n<p>World food imports are expected to ease by 2.5% in 2019, and food product costs are expected to slide, but the poorer and more vulnerable countries will not benefit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethanol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for the bigger maize output in Brazil is the fact that the product is used in ethanol manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Supply Company (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conab.gov.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conab<\/a>), out of 30.3 billion liters of ethanol expected to be made during Brazil\u2019s current crop, 1.4 billion will originate from maize. Brazilian ethanol is customarily made from sugarcane.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Supply Company (Conab), production of maize-based ethanol is \u201cincreasingly relevant,\u201d although it only amounts to 4.62% of total output at this time. The state of Mato Grosso is the biggest producer, followed by the states of Goi\u00e1s and Paran\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new line of business. Brazil is able to make ethanol from maize and from cane. Eventually, we\u2019ll be able to make what we call second-generation ethanol, which is made from biomass. So this is a new market that\u2019s opening up,\u201d said the general coordinator for Sugarcane and Agroenergy at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agricultura.gov.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply<\/a>, Cid Caldas.<\/p>\n<p>Caldas estimates that over USD 1.26 billion will be invested in production of maize for ethanol extraction in Brazil over the next four or five years.<\/p>\n<p><em>*With information from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN News<\/a> and the\u00a0ANBA Newsroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213785\">Archive\/Portos do Paran\u00e1<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country accounts to 25% of global trade of the product, up from a meager 1% ten years ago, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":213785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[340,237,232,268,4009,2667,2188,3605,3979,2675,12370,1983],"class_list":{"0":"post-213820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-un","9":"tag-agriculture","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-camara-arabe","12":"tag-cereal","13":"tag-conab","14":"tag-export","15":"tag-fao","16":"tag-grain","17":"tag-maize","18":"tag-milho-en-2","19":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture"},"wps_subtitle":"The country accounts to 25% of global trade of the product, up from a meager 1% ten years ago, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}