The executive secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Eumar Novacki, heads the Brazilian trade mission to Egypt, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – which has shipped this last weekend – and has 25 Brazilian representatives of companies and entities of different agribusiness segments, as well as MPLS technicians.
The objective is to expand the diversification of the trade agenda and prospect markets, within the established goal of increasing national participation in the world agricultural market from 7% to 10% in five years.
In Egypt, the intention is to renew technical cooperation agreement with Embrapa and increase the beef trade, in addition to consolidating the commercial relationship between the two countries, which has been advancing in recent years. The main agricultural products sold by Brazil to Egypt last year were meats (38.14%), products from the sugar-alcohol complex (29.98%) and cereals, flours and preparations (25.33%), generating in total $ 2 billion in foreign exchange for Brazil.
The nation wants to attract Brazilian companies interested in investing in the country, as it already does the gaucho Marcopolo, which has a bus body factory in Egypt. The Egyptians signal to Brazilian entrepreneurs with the low cost of production in the country and logistical advantages, due to the access of goods through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
In Turkey, the Brazilian delegation will participate in the Food Istanbul 2018 fair, where Brazil will exhibit agricultural products in an official pavilion, as well as hold bilateral meetings with Turkish authorities, in order to attract market and investments for domestic producers. Agribusiness exports from Brazil to Turkey reached US $ 700 million in the last year, mainly in fiber and textiles (26.84%), coffee (21.12%), live animals (20.91%) and products of the soybean complex (15.15%).
In the United Arab Emirates, meetings with the participation of Apex-Brasil, an agency that promotes Brazilian products and services abroad and attracts foreign investments, and with consular representatives are intended to take advantage of the favorable business environment of the country because of its status as a center reference logistics in the region. Last year, Brazilian agricultural exports to the Asian country amounted to US $ 1.63 billion, concentrated in the sucroalcooleiro complex (53.38%) and meat (39.12%).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.