Arab countries interested in expanding fertilizer exports to Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce estimates that Arab countries have the interest and potential to increase fertilizer exports to Brazil.

“There is no doubt that the Arab industry is interested in selling more to Brazil. These countries can supply the Brazilian market,” said the chamber’s secretary-general, Tamer Mansour, in an exclusive interview with Broadcast Agro, Grupo Estado’s real-time news system.

These countries can supply Brazil with the three main nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium.

“I don’t think these countries can replace 100% of the volume that Russia supplies to Brazil because the world will look at the Arabs as Brazil looks at them, but they can supply a large part of that volume,” Mansour assessed, without elaborating on how large that part would be.

Among the countries that could export a larger volume than currently supplied to Brazil, Mansour specifically mentions Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, and Qatar.