Brazil has exported agribusiness to 100 new markets in last 22 months

Since January 2019, Brazil has opened 100 new markets for national agricultural products. The most recent is the export of pigs (for breeding) to Colombia.

Opening foreign markets includes not only selling traditional products that Brazil already exports in large volumes, such as meats, but also various products in the agricultural chain, such as nuts, tea, fruit, fish, dairy products. These work towards meeting the objective of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply (MAPA) to diversify the Brazilian export basket.

“This means new opportunities for Brazilian producers who have been working hard and remaining resilient, even while going through a pandemic. I strongly believe in the competence and competitiveness of our producers, and these openings reflect the intention of MAPA to increasingly diversify our export agenda”, highlights MAPA Minister Tereza Cristina.

Among the market openings of non-traditional products are Baru nuts for South Korea, coconut seedlings for Guyana, Brazil nuts for Saudi Arabia, popcorn corn for Colombia, sesame for India, eucalyptus seedlings for Colombia, shelled eggs for Singapore, and avocados to Argentina.

Markets were also opened for high-added-value products, such as poultry genetic material for the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, and equine embryos for the United States.

Continents

Of the 100 new markets, 45 are in the Americas (Argentina, Colombia, Peru, United States, Mexico, Canada, Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Bolivia); 40 are in Asia (Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, India, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Iran, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, and Qatar); 14 are in Africa (Egypt, Morocco, and Zambia), and one in Oceania (Australia), according to MAPA’s Ministry of Commerce and International Relations.

Despite the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, most of the opening processes for 66 markets were completed this year.

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Countries

The new markets involve 30 countries. This is because some nations started to import more than one agricultural product from Brazil. Each new market corresponds to the export of a product. In this sense, there was a significant expansion with South American neighbors, with the opening of 17 new products for Argentina, 8 for Colombia, and 6 for Bolivia.

“Opening a market is opening a door. And I am sure that we will work together so that our producers pass through this door”, says the minister.

In Asia, Singapore and Myanmar opened seven new markets for Brazilian products. In Africa, Egypt opened eight markets.

Categories by Product

Products derived from poultry (meat, offal, and flour) are among the most sought after, totaling 13 openings, as well as 11 products derived from cattle, 9 from plants, 8 from pigs, 8 from bovine genetic material, 7 from dairy, and 5 from fruits.

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