Brazilian rice exports total 72.79 thousand tonnes in November driven by US purchases
Rice
Brazil
Published Dec 17, 2020
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Brazilian exports of rice (husk base) totaled 72.79 thousand tons in November, according to the Brazilian Association of the Rice Industry (Abiarroz), based on data from the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), of the Ministry of Economy. The volume was well below the previous month (153.5 thousand tons) and the same period in 2019 (130.64 thousand tons), but was pulled by purchases by the Americans in the month.
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Sales of Brazilian cereal to the United States totaled 40.27 thousand tonnes in the last month of November, according to a survey by Abiarroz, with 96% of this volume purchased consisting of broken rice. Other important destinations for rice sales from Brazil to abroad were Venezuela (15.70 thousand t), Peru (10.24 thousand t), Saudi Arabia (1.94 thousand t) and Cape Verde (1.23 thousand t) t). In the comparison of the commercial year (January to November), Brazilian exports are well above the same period of 2019, with 1.76 million tons, against 1.2 million tons. "We serve all markets with growth in shipped volumes. Brazil has managed to fulfill its mission in food security, guaranteeing supply to the population in the domestic and international markets and overcoming all adversities", says the executive director of Sindarroz-RS, Tiago Sarmento Barata. In addition to foreign sales, throughout the month of November, Brazil imported 187.5 thousand tons of rice to guarantee internal ...
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