The increase in Brazil’s farm production has been stunning. Between 1996 and 2006 the total value of the country’s crops rose from 23 billion reais ($23 billion) to 108 billion reais, or 365%. Brazil increased its beef exports tenfold in a decade, overtaking Australia as the world’s largest exporter. It has the world’s largest cattle [...]
Cash-strapped Cuba has continued to slash agricultural purchases from the U.S. even as a key bill that would ease Washington’s Cuban travel ban and make it easier to sell more food to the island works its way through Congress, according to a report released Thursday. Imports fell 28 percent through the first six months of [...]
U.S. food sales to Cuba fell by 35 percent from January through May compared with the same period in 2009, as the cash-strapped nation cut imports and bought from countries offering credit, a U.S.-based trade group said on Tuesday. The steep decline followed a 24-percent drop in sales to the island in 2009 after record [...]
