Brazilian pecan farming targets export market for the year 2024

With approximately 7 thousand tons produced in 2023, pecan farmers had a year that started with high prices. The reason was a strong demand in the national market and also an important demand in the international market, generating optimism for producers. The assessment was made by the president of the Brazilian Pecan Farming Institute (IBPecan), Eduardo Basso. According to the director, in this process of making Brazilian pecans known, producers had greater openness and new information on how to develop their companies. "We went to Argentina and visited a large company that shells around 1,500 tons of pecans per year there, where we had total openness, transparency of information, an opportunity to integrate with them, which made the Brazilians really enchanted", he highlights, adding that on this mission they also had the opportunity to visit an industry that prepares nuts for export in the shell, with a capacity of approximately 600 tons per year. Basso also remembers this ...