AGRO DIPLOMACY
New agricultural markets added billions in Brazilian exports since 2023
President Lula celebrated getting access to 500 new markets for agricultural goods. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
The Brazilian government announced last week that it had concluded sanitary negotiations authorizing exports of animal and vegetable genetic products to three new countries — clearing producers to sell bovine embryos to the United Arab Emirates, live cattle and bovine semen to Ghana, and sorghum seeds to Peru.
The Agriculture Ministry’s announcement capped a year in which the federal government opened 219 new export avenues for Brazilian farmers across 56 countries or economic blocs. The figure is slightly lower than in 2024, when 222 new markets were added, and brings the total to 519 new markets since 2023, when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office.
A study conducted by the ministry and ApexBrasil, the government’s trade and investment promotion agency, found that…
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