Brazil is set to increase its basic import tariff for whole or skimmed milk powder from the EU, in order to offset the withdrawal of anti-dumping duties, Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced this week.

Brazil reported a fall in livestock slaughterings in the final quarter of 2018 reversing some of the gains seen earlier in the year.

Brazilian beef exports to Russia should reach around 150,000 tonnes this year, matching the levels seen before a ban was imposed in late 2017, according to local slaughterhouse association, Abrafrigo.

Orange production in Brazil’s citrus belt (São Paulo state and south-west Minas Gerais) increased by 3.31% from the previous estimate made in December to 284.88 million boxes of 40.8 kilos. In this sense, all producing sectors/regions reported an increase in production.

Chicken prices made some solid gains in Brazil last week amid hopes that demand is starting to pick up after a disappointing start to the year.