Agriculture exports totaled US$ 10.23 billion in January, up 16.5% year on year and a record for the month, thanks to increases in average prices of 10.5% and volume of 5.5%. The commodities that stood out the most in the first month of the year, according to the Ministry’s Secretariat for Commerce and International Relations (SCRI), were corn, meat (beef, pork, and chicken), and sugar. Foreign corn sales reached a new high of 6.2 million tons in January, with revenue increasing by 166.4% over the same month last year to US$ 1.8 billion.
Sources: Reuters/Uniao Nacional da Bioenergia (*Translated by Ia Niani)