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Economy & Business - April 2010 (ISSN 1741-7430)
AGRICULTURE: Bumper year for South America
The 2009/2010 harvest, which is coming to a climax in most of South
America, is likely to set a string of new records. Brazil's harvest total, at
146.3mn tonnes (t) is 8.3% bigger than last year's crop and 1.3% bigger than the
previous record, set in 2007/08, of 144.14m t. In Brazil, the soya crop in
particular is immense at 67.4m t, up 18% on the 2008/09 crop according to the
Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), the state agency that monitors the
harvest. Argentina too is harvesting a record soya crop (perhaps as much as
54.5m t), while Paraguay expects to barn a record 7.4m t soya crop. Even
Bolivia's soya exports are surging.
- How Latin America could set China an example
- The skewed recovery
- AUTO INDUSTRY: What a year, so far
- Selic tightening
- BRICS: An emerging economic bloc?
- ARGENTINA: Looking better
- CHILE: Getting the blues
- PARAGUAY: Benefiting from the soya boom
- URUGUAY: Trade takes over from investment
- BOLIVIA: Government sanctions 5% wage increase
- COLOMBIA: Growing confidence
- VENEZUELA: Braced for a contraction
- ECUADOR: Viteri claims budget secure
- PERU: Picking up
- COSTA RICA: On the up
- CUBA: Problems become acute
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Faster growth forecast
- EL SALVADOR: Borrowing negotiations approved
- GUATEMALA: Signs of weakness in the banking sector
- HONDURAS: President Lobo gets budget approved, as IMF signals support
- NICARAGUA: Inflation on the march again
- PANAMA: Government revenues up 10.5% in first quarter
- AGRICULTURE: Bumper year for South America
- Chile launches reconstruction plan
- BUSINESS IN CUBA: What the Río Zaza scandal reveals
- DEBT: Chile's earthquake loan