As São Paulo’s orange groves struggle with greening disease, Egypt has expanded its orange exports to Brazil. Competing head-to-head with Spain, the Arab country sold USD 16.1 million worth of oranges to Brazil in 2024.
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A leading company in the Egyptian agricultural sector, Pyramids for Agro-Industries plans on starting exporting to Brazil. Its portfolio includes orange, lemon, tangerine, pomegranate, grapefruit, onions, sweet potato, strawberries, garlic, and others.
The region of AlUla in Saudi Arabia is a citrus fruit producer and will host a festival dedicated to the cultivation of these fruits.
The hike was seen in the first ten months of the 2019/2020 crop-year. One of the drivers of growth is a shift in people’s behavior towards consuming more products at home.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil produced 238.4 million tons of cereals, legumes and oil seeds, a 28% hike over the previous year.
The country shipped 467,600 tons of the product abroad from January to May. Purchases by the United States drove the hike in exports.
