Brazil: Rice exports exceed 450,000 t in Q1, says Abiarroz

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Published Apr 29, 2022

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Brazilian exports of rice (husk base) totaled 451.3 thousand tons in the first quarter of the year, more than double the same period in 2021, when 207.7 thousand tons were shipped, informs the Brazilian Rice Industry Association (Abiarroz ). With the result from January to March, the entity expects foreign sales of the cereal to reach at least 1.4 million t in 2022, surpassing the volume of around 1.2 million in 2021.

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Also according to figures released by Abiarroz, based on data from the Ministry of Economy, in March alone, cereal exports totaled 180,300 t, against 104,400 t in the same month of 2021. rice processed last month were Senegal, Peru, Venezuela, Gambia and Sierra Leone. “The numbers for exports in the first quarter were good compared to 2021, but shipments of the processed cereal still need to grow more”, emphasizes the director of International Affairs at Abiarroz, Gustavo Trevisan. In the period from January to March, he points out, most of the volume exported was broken rice and husk. Trevisan also notes that the lack of containers, worsened recently with the lockdown in Shanghai (China), where the world's largest port is located, continues to hamper foreign sales of Brazilian rice: “The situation of the pandemic in China has made the costs of our exports even more expensive because of the difficulties of renting containers, especially in relation to our higher added value ...

Source: Agroemdia