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This Monday (1st) in your ANBA Bulletin: Brazilian sugar production. The decline in ethanol sales and the increase in sugarcane processing will allow Brazil to supply 30 million tonnes to the world sugar market in the 2020-21 crop. And the Arab countries are demanding a series of new items from Brazil, including citrus fruit. The information was given by Arab Chamber president during a live stream hosted on the Instagram account of the Global Council of Sales Marketing (GCSM). Brazilian agribusiness managed to grow in the first quarter, by 0.6%, while Brazil GDP contracted 1.5%. And orange juice exports from Brazil are up. And a profile on Arab Chamber cultural director Silvia Antibas, who won the 2019 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture. Learn about the historian’s Arab background and her career’s landmarks. |
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São Paulo – The Brazilian 2020-21 sugarcane crop is just beginning but is promising and can allow Brazil to have a large sugar export supply. According to the “Fortnightly Monitoring of the Center-South Region Crop” through May 16 released by the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the sugarcane grinding through mid-May surpassed 103 million tonnes, up 21.67% from a year ago.
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São Paulo – Demand in Arab countries for Brazilian products is going up amid the pandemic, including for fruit. Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce president Rubens Hannun (pictured above) discussed this during a live stream hosted on the Instagram account of the Global Council of Sales Marketing (GCSM)’s The Winner magazine this Thursday (28).
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São Paulo – Orange juice exports from Brazil were 17% bigger in the first ten months of the 2019/2020 crop season than in the comparable period of the preceding season. The numbers were made public by the National Citrus Juice Exporters Association (CitrusBR) quoting Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex) figures. Foreign sales amounted to 914,200 tons. Revenue climbed 4.5% to USD 1.5 billion.
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São Paulo – The need to increase availability of shipping lanes linking up Brazil and Arab countries in Africa was stressed by Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce secretary-general Tamer Mansour during a webinar on Thursday (28). “Let’s do business” was one of the events held in celebration of May 25, which is Africa Day.
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Rio de Janeiro – Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.5% in the first quarter of the year from the prior quarter, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics said on Friday (29). Year-on-year, GDP declined by 0.3%. In the twelve months through March, GDP grew by 0.9%.
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São Paulo – When the phone of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce Cultural director Silvia Antibas rang on May 18, she thought: “I won!” And she did. That call from Paris, France, told her she was one of the recipients of the 2019 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, given by one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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