Brazil looks to halal food market to diversify agricultural exports
Brazil
Published Dec 7, 2021
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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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