Brazil opens 100 new foreign markets for agricultural products

Published Oct 29, 2020

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Brazil has successfully opened 100 new markets for its agricultural products since January 2019, including pigs to Colombia, as part of a diversification strategy by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA). These new markets range from traditional items like meats to non-traditional products such as nuts, tea, fruits, fish, dairy, and plants. The new markets are distributed across 30 countries in America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, with a focus on products with high added value like poultry genetic material and equine embryos. The majority of these market openings were completed despite the pandemic this year.

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Brazil has conquered the opening of 100 new markets for national agricultural products since January 2019. The most recent is export of pigs (breeding) to Colombia. The work to open foreign markets does not only include the sale of traditional products of which Brazil is already a major exporter, such as meats, but of various products in the agricultural chain, such as nuts, tea, fruits, fish, dairy products and plants, serving 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 showing a lot of resilience, even going through a pandemic. I strongly believe in the competence and competitiveness of our producers, and these openings reflect the intention of the Map to increasingly diversify our export agenda ”, highlights Minister Tereza Cristina (Agriculture, Livestock and Supply). Among the openings for non-traditional products are ...

Source: Agricultura