JBS invests $45 million R eyeing the Chinese market

JBS just invest R $45 million to double the capacity of two refrigerators in Minas Gerais to meet increasing demand from China. Of this total, the unit of Ituiutaba received R $27 million and $18 million of Iturama, R. "I already receive well the internal market with these plants. Now, with exports to China, started a second round of operations, "says Renato Costa, President of JBS. He does not reveal the volume produced, but points out that the Chinese represent 40% of shipments from two mining factories. For the JBS as a whole, it is expected end 2018 with 125% growth in shipment of beef to the Asian country. The reforms include modernisation of equipment and a project that aims to improve the flow of industrial processes and, consequently, productivity. Comes around. Other four units of JBS slaughter are authorized to export beef to China: Lins (SP), Andradina (SP), Mozarlândia (Goiás) and Barra do Garças (MT). Renato Costa account that investments are being made in plants and Mato Grosso, Goias also with views to the external market. "We are expanding the ability of freezing, storage and production," he says. Solo flight. In the beef sector in General did not see large financial resources in the expansion of industrial capacity, says William Baker, senior analyst of Agribusiness of Itaú BBA. "What we noticed are investments of the gate inside." Ranchers come spending more with genetic improvement, pasture management and adoption of crop-livestock integration system (ILP). "That has translated into reasonable increases in productivity." An eye. Days after disclosing an analysis on corn ethanol plants, the Rabobank noted strong interest of producers in the subject: 40 wanted to participate in teleconference on the subject, at the end of September. By the calculations of the Rabobank, the revenue with 1 hectare of corn could be 90% greater with the sale of the grain combined with ethanol and co-products. "When the price of grain is low, the producer may use the maximum capacity of the plant to produce ethanol; When the corn is priced well, opts for grand sale, "explains Victor Ikeda, grain analyst of Rabobank. Less sugar cane. The Usimat, the main plant of Mato Grosso to produce ethanol with sugar cane or maize, intends to prioritize, gradually, cereal processing, for economic and operational issues. At the same time, the company will trade sugarcane crops by eucalyptus wood which is used for power generation in thermal unit, replacing the bagasse. Chips. The Sao Martinho bet in digital solutions to triple the production of cane fields until 2020 – today, there's ability to grind up to 24 million tons of sugar cane per year. The company just bought 1,700 onboard computers of the Hexagon, a global leader in information technology solutions, which will be installed in all agricultural machinery group and replace the previous systems. With them, the São Martinho will adopt new features of precision agriculture in the field operations. "The main challenge is to optimize the company's technological processes to reduce losses", explains Walter Junior, Everyone Technology Advisor Are Martin. (Con) Merger. Minister of agriculture and one of the largest rural entrepreneurs in the country, Blairo Maggi disagrees the idea of Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) to merge the ministries of agriculture and environment, proposal of the candidate who brought the "ruralists" to support your campaign. The aides, Maggi assessed that the agendas of the folders are different and need of dialogue, but not in single Ministry. More heated. Consortia sales of Banco do Brazil for tractors and trucks used in agriculture reached $307 million R in the eight first months of the year, up 28.5 percent compared with the same period in 2017. The sector is targeted by the institution as one of the highlights in this model for the acquisition of vehicles. The total sales of BB consortia, on the same basis of comparison, less advanced, or 21%, to $7 billion. Light in the tunnel. The saga of atoleiros in BR-163, the main route of transportation of grain from the Midwest to Stop, may be close to the end. The 38 kilometers under the responsibility of the army with pavement originally scheduled for 2019 have been through earthwork and drainage works, says Ashwani Vaz Ferreira, Executive Director of the Pro-life Movement logistics, soybean producers association and Mato Grosso corn (Aprosoja). They are the known "Excerpt Matos", in Itaituba (PA). "What's going to be for next year won't bring trafegabilidade problem," he says. St. Peter. Ferreira believes the other 37 kilometers without asphalt, between the districts of Bela Vista do Caracol, in the municipality of Trairão (PA), and Santa Rita, in Itaituba, will be paved still in 2018 by the company in charge of the work, the Agrienge. "Will depend on the rain," he emphasizes.