Brazil nuts: Acre records 202% in export increase

In Acre, the marketing of Brazil nuts in shell of the 2012/2013 season has already surpassed in 202% the volume marketed in the previous harvest and recorded an increase of 180% in the amount billed with the sale of the product to the international market. The data were found to make up the price of agricultural and forestry Bulletin, produced monthly by Embrapa Acre and the Federation of agriculture and livestock in the State of Acre (FAEAC).
The Acre is the second largest producer in the country, trailing behind the Amazon. In 2011, the production was 14 thousand tons of acre and Amazonas 14.6 million, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of geography and statistics (IBGE).
The price paid to the extractive Brazil nuts in shell registered increase of approximately 82%, since the beginning of this season, in December, and the Acre already exported until February, 3.1 million tons of the product in 2012/2013, the amount paid by the Bolivian and Peruvian industries specifically, which respectively imported 67% and 33% of all sales volume, according to figures from the Ministry of development, Industry and foreign trade (Mdic-Aliceweb).
According to the Economist of Embrapa Acre, Márcio Bayma, editor of the Bulletin of prices, this scenario contradicts all expectations of lower demand for the product at the beginning of the harvest. "One of the agents responsible for this increase in Tin price registered in recent days were the exporters," he said.
Between the months of December and February 2013, 2012 with the marketing of the product to the foreign market, have been inserted in the production chain chestnut acre more than 4.1 million reals, according to data from the Ministry/Aliceweb. The average price paid for can of Brazil nuts in shell, by exporters, was r $ 15,89.
In relation to Brazil nuts (shelled) benefited, industries in 2012 were acre, the equivalent of 18.2 million dollars in the domestic market with the sale of 1.1 million tons of the product to the average price of R $ 15.95 per pound. These figures show an increase of 27% in volume and 33% on the invoiced amount traded, compared to the previous year, according to data from the Ministry of Finance of the State of Acre (Sefaz/AC).
"Such information prove the heating demand for Brazil nuts in shell in the international market and also of the benefit on the domestic market in relation to the marketing of the previous harvest," says economist of Embrapa Acre.