This is what the Ministry of Agriculture’s indicator points to Ethanol and sugar, which are part of the complex sugar and alcohol segment, accounted for 8.83% of agribusiness exports last January. In terms of values, foreign sales in the sugar-energy sector total US $ 515 million. The information is from Agrostat, an indicator of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Map). Overall, agro exported $ 5.830 billion in the first month of 2020. According to the indicator, in January 2019 ethanol and sugar had a worse percentage performance and accounted for 5.55% of the total exported by the agribusiness. In turn, in values the result was US $ 357 million. In January 2019, in general, agribusiness exported US $ 4.822 billion.
Source: Jornal Cana