AGRIBUSINESS

Agribusiness - eventually called "agronegócio" in Brazil - is a term used to refer to the socio-spatial context of agricultural production, including all services, techniques and equipment related to it, directly or indirectly.

Therefore, this sector of the economy involves a chain of activities that includes agricultural production (cultivation of crops such as coffee, cotton, livestock, etc.), demand for fertilizers and fertilizers, development of agricultural machinery, (such as oils, cigarettes, instant coffee, among others) and the development of technologies to streamline all these activities.

Coffee Export

Coffee exports by country totaled US$30.6 billion in 2016, down by an overall -7.5% for all coffee shippers over the five-year period starting in 2012. Year over year, the value of global coffee exports was flat diminishing by -0.3% from 2015 to 2016.

Latin America (excluding Mexico) plus the Caribbean accounted for the highest dollar value worth of coffee exports during 2016 with shipments amounting to $10.7 billion or 34.8% of worldwide coffee exports. Close behind in second place was Europe with 34.2%, followed by Asia at 18.1% and Africa at 6.2%. North American exporters shipped 5.9% of international coffee sold during 2016.

Main Export

• Sugar IC45
• Yellow Corn
• Soybean
• Soybean meal
• Sugar RAW 600/1200
• Coffee
• White Corn
• Operant Countries

Principal sugar exporting countries in 2016/2017.

This statistic illustrates the major sugar exporting countries worldwide in 2016/2017. In that year, the European countries exported approximately 1.5 million metric tons of sugar. Brazil was by far the largest sugar exporting country in that year, with exports of around 28.15 million metric tons of sugar.

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Brazilian Soybean

Soya with social and environmental certificate grows 21% in the 2017/18 harvest
Even with the growth, only 4 million tons of grains produced in the country have RTRS certificate in a total of 120 million tons.

Soybean production with the RTRS socio-environmental certificate is expected to close Brazil's 2017/2018 crop with a 21 percent increase over 2017, reaching 4 million tons, with producers interested in obtaining an award for the oilseed crop grown under higher environmental standards.