In November, beef exports generated $ 281.4 million, $ 69 million higher than the same period of 2009.
René Brazier, President of the National Cattlemen of Nicaragua (Conago), noted as reasons for the increase to better international meat prices and increased production in the country.
Elnuevodiario.com.ni points out, "that even today, some processing plants in the country have sent 12 containers of meat to the Russian market ...
Up to September, exports reported an increase of 10.8% over the same period in 2009.
According to the Nicaraguan Association of Textiles and Apparel (Anitec), foreign sales until September 2010 totaled $ 733.74 million.
"Although this sector only surfaced, considering the cumulative growth of 2008, the performance in September was slower than compared to last August, which increased 14.6 percent," published Laprensa.com.ni.
In 2009-2010 coffee exports as a whole for the nine AL producing countries fell 9.5% over the previous harvest.
The total exports from Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru and Dominican Republic totaled 23.2 million 60 kilos bags.
According to Misfinanzasenlinea.com "During the harvest period 2008-2009, exports totaled 25.7 million bags, according Anacafé, which is the Guatemalan agency responsible for reporting sales of beans from the group of nine Latin American countries."
In the first nine months of the year the country exported $ 1,451 million, exceeding the total sales of 2009.
According to the Center for Export Procedures (CETREX) the total exports in 2009 totaled $ 1,434 million.
El Nuevo Diario reports that "CETREX also informed a 16.2% increase in volume of exports during the first nine months of 2010 compared to the period of 2009."
In the first 10 months of the current coffee harvest season, the value of the country's exports rose 41.4% relative to the same period last season.
Between October 2009 and July 2010 Nicaraguan coffee sales abroad totaled $287.2 million compared with $203.1 million in the same period of the previous harvest, reports the country's Export Procedures Center (Cetrex).
In the first seven months of the year, sales of goods abroad recorded a 32.6% increase relative to the same period in 2009.
According to data from Nicaragua's Export Procedures Center (Cetrex), sales in the first six months of 2010 totaled $1.16 billion, compared to $0.85 billion in the same period of last year.
"The leading products are coffee with $261 million, beef with $168 million, sugar with $103 million, gold with $103 million and dairy products with $82 million," reports an article on Terra.com.
The supply of Nicaraguan products, particularly food, cannot keep up with demand from the Taiwanese market.
While exports have increased 172%, from $5.4 million in the first six months of 2009 to $14.7 million in the same period of 2010, Anita Huang, economic council to the Taiwanese Embassy in Nicaragua has indicated that the south east asian country's market can cope with more.
In the first six months of the year foreign sales of meat, dairy products and livestock from Nicaragua reached $234.5 million.
In the same period of 2009, sales totaled $182,614.
Ronald Blandón, CEO of Nicaraguan cattle farming association, CONAGAN, told Elnuevodiaro.com.ni that, “2010 looks like being a year of growth for our sector. The outlook for all livestock products is positive with growth of 8% forecast”.
Report from SIECA shows an increase of $2,406 million in external trade for the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009.
After 18 months of instability and falling levels of trade, in the first quarter of 2010 external trade recorded an increase of $2,406 million, according to statistics from central banks, trade and economy ministers and statistics institutes of Central American countries.
The country is on track to export a record $1 billion in the first six months of the year.
Up to June 22 2010, Nicaragua had sold $955 million, 35% more than the same period of 2009.
Laprensa.com.ni remarked that “coffee remains the main export good, accounting for 23.95% of the total, followed by beef (14.02%) and raw gold (8.49%)”, according to data from the Nicaraguan Center for Exports (Cetrex).
Central American nations exported a combined $11.34 billion in the first quarter of 2010.
The figure is 20% higher than the same period of 2009, when the region exported $9.44 billion.
Sieca, the Central American Economic Integration Secretary, reported that growth was reported in many traditional products such as coffee, banana, sugar and oil palm.
In the first five months of the year, exports summed $819.6 million, 33.5% more than in the same period of 2009.
Data from Exports Center Cetrex show that El Salvador shipped 788.584 metric tons of goods in the same period, 26% more if compared to 2009, when the country shipped 625.639 metric tons.
“The product that grew the most during the first five months of the year, going from $13 million in 2009 to $76.19 million in 2010”, reported Laprensa.com.ni. “The second highest growing product was petroleum derivates”.
In the first two months of the year the country sold $284.9 million, 31.8% more than the same period of 2009, when it sold $216.1 million.
Exported volume increased 30.9% in the same period, according to data from Cetrex, Nicaragua’s export Center.
“The United States remains the top market for Nicaraguan exports, followed by El Salvador and Venezuela. These three countries account for 50.42% of all sales”, reported Laprensa.com.ni.