Oranges and strawberries that have been frozen drive Egypt’s export growth in Brazil

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Based on EastFruit, Egypt is expanding its markets for export of fruits and vegetables. Brazil is among the top destinations. The year 2023 saw Egyptian exporters increased their shipment of frozen and fresh fruits and other vegetables to Brazil and have gained a significant position for certain items.

The past five years Egyptian exports for fresh as well as frozen vegetables and fruits to Brazil are up to more than 13 times! The year 2019 saw garlic as the most popular product that was exported by Egypt to Brazil in the total amount being less than 2.4 thousand tonnes. In 2023, Brazil has imported more than 31 million tons of vegetable as well as fruits and vegetables from Egypt which included frozen strawberries as well as citrus fruit (oranges and mangoes).

The primary driver behind the increase in exports of fruits and vegetable items of Egypt towards Brazil by 2023 is the soaring of frozen strawberries exports. The volume increased more than seven times over 2022 when they reached 16000 tonnes, giving Egypt an unprecedented 86% of Brazil’s import market. Brazilian imported market. Egyptian producers also performed better than their counterparts who come from China and also those from other nearby countries such as Chile as well as Argentina.

Egypt remains the largest importer of oranges imported to Brazil for a second straight year, with close to 12 000 tonnes of these fruit. The main rivals in 2013 were able to export 8.3 thousand tonnes (Spain), 4.8 thousand tonnes (Uruguay), 1.1 thousand tonnes (Chile) and one thousand tonnes (Argentina) into Brazil. Brazil although it is the leader of the world in producing and exporting juice from oranges is still importing between 20 and 30 tons of citrus every year to be consumed fresh.

In addition to the oranges, Egypt also exports mandarins as well as mandarins to Brazil as well, and this has seen a substantial increase between now and 2023. It increased 5 1/2 times to 2.1 thousands of tons. But, Egypt still lags behind when it comes to suppliers of mandarins, since Uruguay and Spain exported 5.3 million tons and 4.7 thousand tonnes of these fruit to Brazil this year, according to.

Garlic was the fourth main sector that accounted for the majority of Egyptian exports into Brazil from 2023. Egyptian exporters were less successful in this sector than the mandarin sector. Exports of Egyptian garlic were only up 25% to 1.6 thousand tonnes, and Egypt only had a 1.4 percent share of the Brazilian market for imports. Argentina (87 thousand tonnes) as well as China (24 thousand tonnes) dominating the market.

For more details: east-fruit.com

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Source: The Plantations International Agroforestry Group of Companies