Brazil imported 15,000 tons of product and prices remained high on the wholesale market. As a result of the lack of onion supply, Brazil had to increase onion imports in January by more than eleven times when compared with the same month last year.
Supply of Brazilian mangoes is currently limited, both in Brazil and in the Netherlands and Carlos Andre Faria from the European sales office of Sun City in Bleiswijk, NL, does not expect the situation to change before late March.
Sugar production in Brazil’s key Centre South district will rise next season, but by less than many investors believe, influential industry spokesman Antonio de Padua Rodrigues believes.
WOG Ltd is a newly established Brazilian importing and exporting company that imports garlic and onions from China; two products that Brazil consumes throughout the whole year.
After a huge supply of melons from Brazil at the end of 2015, importers were a lot more careful with the import last month. "It wasn't the volumes, but the dramatically low prices that caused this
Forecasts for favorable Brazilian weather seemed to depress the corn and soybean markets early Monday morning, although Argentine conditions look they’ll continue drying.
Smurfit Kappa bought INPA and Paema, two private integrated packaging companies that combined have three recycled corrugated cardboard factories with a total capacity of 210,000 tons and four corrugated cardboard plants that service the northeast of Brazi
It was January 2009 when I landed in Brazil, to work for Unilever. I thought I knew quite a lot about the country from some previous quick visits, yet how wrong I was. I did not see the sun for three weeks in a row.
The Valagro Group, leader in the production and marketing of bio-stimulants and specialty nutrients, has announced it has started the construction of its new plant in Pirassununga, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Sugar prices eased, as data from Brazil’s main cane growing region showed that the wet harvesting season has not affected sugar production as badly as had been thought.
Raw sugar futures reversed course on Monday, ending lower as political and economic news out of Brazil hurt the currency of the world’s largest sugar producer.
The Brazilian ginger season is almost finished. The country exports ginger to the U.S. and Europe. "We have two seasons: one in which we export by air, which runs from April to June, and another with shipments by by sea from July to December,"
Sugar prices ended higher for the first time in four sessions on the back of a report by Platts Kingsman that estimated demand for sugar will outstrip production this year by a larger margin than previously forecast.
Movement of mangos is expected to remain stable and prices are expected to remain steady through the end of the month. If historical trends hold true, prices should increase in January.
Global sugar supplies are tightening as mills wind down the cane crush in the cent re-south of Brazil, forcing buyers in the world market to pay shrinking discounts to futures.
Onion exporters and packers cannot complain right now, "There are a great deal of onions going out. Everyone has plenty of work and has collected a good deal of supply, the mood is good.
Brazilian corn exports set a record high volume in November, and despite more rains in the forecast, December corn exports are likely to rise nearly 10 percent from the previous month.
Brazil’s sugar producers are advancing forward hedging for next season, to judge by sector leaders Raizen Energia and Sao Martinho, encouraged by higher prices and the potential for higher cane volumes too.
