Agriculture: Brazil Authorizes Grape and Garlic Imports From Egypt

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, announced yesterday after Brazil had achieved the opening of the Egyptian market for domestic dairy products, that the country would authorize the importation of Egyptian grapes and garlic.

On Sunday, September 15th, Tereza Cristina met in Cairo with the Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Recovery, Ezz el-Din Abu Steit.

On the meeting’s agenda was also the import of oranges by Brazil and the shipment of goats and sheep to Egypt, a measure that may benefit the Brazilian Northeast, where there is an EMBRAPA (Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research) advanced research center on the activity, in Sobral (Ceará).

“For many years we have been closed, Brazil is now rushing for this market opening,” said the minister in a note distributed by her advisors. The Egyptian minister said that his country intends to increase imports of Brazilian agricultural products, as well as boosting partnership in research.

The two countries are reviewing the partnership protocol between EMBRAPA and the Egyptian Research Center.

In Cairo, the Brazilian minister participated in a seminar with businessmen in the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce.

The president of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce, Ibrahim Al-Arabi, also said that 11 percent of food products consumed in Egypt come from Brazil. In his opinion, logistics and transport must be reinforced in order to expand this bilateral relationship.

Between September 11th and 23rd, Minister Tereza Cristina will visit four Middle Eastern countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

Source: Estadão

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