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Agriculture in South America

  • ARGENTINA: Country To Resume Pork Imports From The United States

    ARGENTINA, 2017/08/22 Argentina will any minute at this time resume importing pork from the United States for the initial time since 1992, according to reports. The announcement came a few days next U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires. According to a White Home statement, the United States is the world's leading exporter of pork, and this agreement opens a potential market of $ 10 million per year for American pork producers.
  • Agricultural development Argentina AGD to lead Argentina’s agricultural drive

    ARGENTINA, 2017/03/04 As Argentina opens its economy to the world, its key agribusiness sector – long the mainstay of its economic increase – seeks a reinvention through technology and better trade and commerce agreements worldwide. The Worldfolio sits down with Roberto Urquía of AGD, which is part Argentina’s most prominent agribusiness companies, to discuss these changes. AGD is a purely Argentine company which has made the change from simply exporting raw materials to a diversified portfolio inclunding price-added, branded products.
  • South Atlantic: “Fewer catches as illex squid season ends”

    ARGENTINA, 2014/12/19 The final statement on the squid fishery in 2014 states that 61 jiggers caught a total of 147,439 tonnes of squid in 270 fishing trips, which were performed in over 5,360 working days, with a daily average catch of 26.1 tonnes. In the area adjacent to the Argentine Sea additional than 253,000 tonnes were caught, and around the Falkland Islands, the capture amounted to 288,000 tonnes of the cephalopod. Since March, catches in the south of latitude 44° have depended on the south-Patagonian stock (SSP), while to the north, during May and June, catches depended solely on the north-Patagonian stock from Buenos Aires (SBNP) on the outer shelf, Pescare informed.
  • The idea is that the label and seal identify Argentine produce with premium quality

    ARGENTINA, 2014/06/16 Argentina is promoting the use of the distinctive label of “Mar Argentino, Salvaje y Austral”, for fishery produce traded by Argentine companies. The Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, is responsible for the implementation of the initiative which aims to incorporate the origin seal and promotional brochures. CFP has a draft resolution with the protocol to be followed by the entrepreneurs interested in incorporating it in their packaging. The initiative has been delayed two years from its original plan which was targeted to be launched in 2013. The idea is that the “Mar Argentino” label and seal distinguishes fishery products exported from Argentina and becomes a symbol of quality, with the endorsement of the national state.
  • Spanish vessel allegedly illegally fishing in Argentine waters must pay 1.1 million Euros

    ARGENTINA, 2013/07/16 According to Spanish sources, even at the same time as dissenting with the sanction, the owners of the vessel Pesqueras del Bon who sent two high ranking envoys of the company to Puerto Madryn, are prepared to pay the fine so that the ‘Piscator’ can abandon Argentina as any minute at this time as possible. The Argentine government confirmed a fine of 5.3 million Pesos (approx 800.000 Euros) and another 300.000 Euros to liberate the forfeited catch on board, mostly squid, of the Spanish flagged vessel ‘Piscator’ caught last 2 July allegedly illegally operating in Argentine waters and which remains retained in Puerto Madryn.   The 72 metres long fishing vessel with its crew of 30 is docked in the Patagonian port since July 2, and crew and officers have been treated correctly and are allowed to go ashore and move around the city with not much restriction, according to Manuel Garcia Pastoriza and General Manager Carlos García from Pesqueras del Bon.
  • Argentina to confiscate wheat stocks

    ARGENTINA, 2013/07/06 Argentina which is one of the world’s leading exporters has seen its 2012/13 wheat production drop to below nine million tons compared to the fourteen million tons of the previous harvest. “If by Friday the market is not normalized, the Argentine government will apply the supply and anti-hoarding law which enables confiscation of the grain and the sale of the produce to mills to ensure flour to bakeries” said the aggressive Domestic market secretary. Argentina Domestic Commerce Secretary, Guillermo Moreno has given mills and exporters until Friday to normalize the wheat market which has been under stress with bread prices doubling in the last month, and farmers’ complaining about the worst harvest in decades because of government policies.
  • Argentina-Nigeria: Argentina pledges support for agricultural

    ARGENTINA, 2013/06/26 The Argentina ambassador to Nigeria, Mercelo Cima, has indicated the willingness of his country to support Benue National to boost agriculture. Cima made the pledge yesterday at a conference with government officials in Makurdi on the need for partnership to boost the agricultural potentials of the national. The delegation which was led by the Nigerian's ambassador to Argentina, Achive Akaave, harped on the challenges facing food processing in the national and promised to contribute their quota to fast track development in agric-business.
  • Producers from colombia eye Asia for agro exports

    COLOMBIA, 2013/06/21 A bid to target Asia as a destination for additional of Colombia’s agricultural goods could shore up efforts to diversify exports away from minerals. However, producers face a number of challenges, inclunding limited transport infrastructure, lengthy certification processes and domestic currency appreciation. Proexport, an agency promoting Colombian goods abroad, has identified specific agro-industrial products that it says could do well in targeted Asian markets, according to the local press. Its inventory includes coffee, aimed at China, Japan and Malaysia, and a range of fruits for Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. The agency said price-added agro goods, such as processed vegetables, could as well generate interest. 
  • Chinese state group BBCA to build maize processing factory in Brazil

    CHINA, 2013/04/28 Chinese national group BBCA is expected to invest US$320 million in building a factory to process maize in Maracaju, in the Brazilian national of Mato Grosso do Sul, under the terms of a document signed Tuesday in Beijing. Governor André Puccinelli, who signed the transaction, said that this was the biggest project carried out by a Chinese company in Mato Grosso do Sul, which was completed following three years of negotiation “mainly on a legal level.”
  • World Food Prices Decline For Third Month

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 World food prices dropped for the third successive month in December, owing mainly to lower prices for cereals and oil-seeds, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.