Omar Nasser, from Fiep*<\/STRONG><\/P> Curitiba – Sugar production in the state of Paran\u00e1, in southern Brazil, during the first nine months this year was 32.4% higher than recorded in the same period last year. Between January and September this year, the last month for which there are data available, 1.74 million tonnes of the commodity was produced. The State Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply (Seab) estimate is for sugar production in Paran\u00e1 to reach 2.23 million tonnes this year.<\/P> According to Disonei Zampieri, analyst at Seab, the Arab market is one of the main customers for sugar from Paran\u00e1. Data provided by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade show that exports of the product to Middle Eastern and North African countries through the port of Paranagu\u00e1 have been growing. Between 2004 and 2005, the volume increased by 2.8%, going from 568,200 to 584,200 tonnes. Another increase is expected this year. By October, the amount was 557,400 tonnes, or 95.4% of total exports to the region last year.<\/P> Zampieri claimed that favourable prices, climate, technology, logistics and the nearness between crop and processing plant have propelled the growth of the sugar and alcohol sector in the state. The cane crop in Paran\u00e1 should reach 32.6 million tonnes this year. The estimate allows for the projection, for next year, of an 18.2% expansion in planted area, which would then reach 512,100 hectares.<\/P> Market estimates indicate that in October, the sugar tonne for domestic retail was listed at US$ 560.00. That was twice the value for exports: US$ 276.86 per tonne. That did not mean, though, that foreign buyers were left empty-handed. The price of exported sugar in September this year was 51.3% higher than recorded in September 2005, and 42% higher than recorded in January 2006.<\/P> Besides, foreign sales contracts must be honoured, or else they lead to loss of credibility and, therefore, of market. In the first nine months of 2006, the sugar industry in the state of Paran\u00e1 accumulated 833,300 tonnes of exports, which accounted for 10% of physical exports in the sector during that period.<\/P> According to data supplied by the S\u00e3o Paulo Sugar Cane Agroindustry Union (Unica), Paran\u00e1 ranks fourth in national Brazilian sugar production, after the states of S\u00e3o Paulo (Southeast), Alagoas (Northeast) and Minas Gerais (Southeast).<\/P> * Federation of Industries of the State of Paran\u00e1. Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From January to September this year, 1.74 million tonnes of the product were produced, 32% more than in the same period last year. Exports of the commodity to the Arabs through the port of Paranagu\u00e1 have also increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agribusiness"},"wps_subtitle":"From January to September this year, 1.74 million tonnes of the product were produced, 32% more than in the same period last year. Exports of the commodity to the Arabs through the port of Paranagu\u00e1 have also increased.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22554","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\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}