Tag: Marcos Pontes

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Fertilizer congress reveals Brazil's efforts in accessing the input and the need to promote a national industry

  

  The ninth edition of the Brazilian Fertilizer Congress, organized by ANDA, (Brazilian National Fertilizers Organization) underscored the main difficulties faced by the agriculture sector in having access to fertilizer at a time of global logistics chaos caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Bolsonaro after Israel technology to water the parched northeast

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he wants an agreement with Israel to build desalination plants in the parched north where droughts are frequent. In a message on Twitter, Bolsonaro, who is to take office on Jan. 1, said his appointed Science and Technology Minister Marcos Pontes will travel to Tel Aviv in January to meet with his Israeli counterpart over the matter.