Brazil has managed to open 100 new markets for national agricultural products since January 2019. The most recent is the export of pigs (reproduction) 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 meat, but also various products from the agricultural chain, such as nuts, tea, fruits, fish, dairy products and plants, serving to the objective of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) of diversifying the Brazilian export agenda.
“This means new opportunities for Brazilian producers who have been working hard and showing a lot of resilience, even going through a pandemic. I really believe in the competence and competitiveness of our producers and these openings reflect Mapa’s intention to increasingly diversify our export agenda”, highlights Minister Tereza Cristina (Agriculture, Livestock and Supply).
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Among the openings of non-traditional products are Baru nuts for South Korea, coconut seedlings for Guyana, Brazil nuts for Saudi Arabia, popcorn corn for Colombia, sesame seeds for India, eucalyptus seedlings for Colombia, eggs in shell to Singapore and avocado to Argentina.
Markets were opened for high-value-added products, such as poultry genetic material for the United Arab Emirates and Morocco and equine embryos for the United States.
Continents
Of the 100 new markets, 45 are in America (Argentina, Colombia, Peru, United States, Mexico, Canada, Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Bolivia); 40 in Asia (Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, India, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Iran, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore and Qatar); 14 in Africa (Egypt, Morocco and Zambia) and one in Oceania (Australia), according to data from Mapa's Secretariat for Trade and International Relations.
Even with the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, most of the opening processes were completed this year, with 66 markets.
Countries
The new markets involve 30 countries. This is because some nations started to import more than one agricultural product from Brazil. Each new market corresponds to the export of a product. In this sense, there was a significant expansion with South American neighbors, with the opening of 17 new products for Argentina, eight for Colombia and six for Bolivia.
“Opening a market is opening a door. And I am sure that we will work together so that our producers actually go through it”, says the minister.
In Asia, Singapore and Myanmar each opened seven new markets for Brazilian products. In Africa, Egypt opened eight markets.
Categories by products
Products derived from poultry (meat, offal and flour) are among the most sought after, totaling 13 openings, as well as 11 from cattle, nine from plants, eight from pigs, eight from bovine genetic material, seven from dairy products and five from fruits.
Source: DATA
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