Brazil looks to halal food market to diversify agricultural exports

Published 2021년 12월 6일

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Brazil, the world's largest food product exporter, is planning to diversify its agricultural exports to Islamic countries. The country is in talks with Indonesia, Lebanon, and Morocco to expand access to these markets and sell a variety of agricultural products other than corn, beef, chicken, and raw sugar. In 2020, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OCI) imported $190.5 billion worth of food, of which Brazil accounted for $14.1 billion. Brazil aims to have a larger share in the global food trade by targeting new markets and diversifying the products sold.

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SAO PAULO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Brazil, the world's largest exporter of food products such as coffee, meat and soybeans, wants to diversify agricultural exports to Islamic countries, Flavio Bettarello, undersecretary of Commerce at the Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday. . Speaking at the Global Halal Brazil business conference held in Sao Paulo, Bettarello told delegates that the country is in talks with Indonesia, Lebanon and Morocco to expand access to those markets and sell agricultural products other than corn, meat from beef, chicken and raw sugar. "There is a concern regarding the types of products exported and the destinations," Bettarello said. The 57-member Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OCI) imported $ 190.5 billion worth of food such as wheat, corn, sugar, rice, milk and dairy products in 2020, according to data from the Brazilian Arab Chamber of Commerce. Of that total, the South American giant accounted for $ 14.1 billion, according to the data. Bettarello ...

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