CARTHAGO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION is an holding Company newly established in Brazil between cooperative group and International Experts in marketing. Our company has 12,400 farmer associated, and association cooperative groups in other Latin American countries, Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, and others, has 540 Employees, has 48 years of experience in plantation and sale of soybeans, corn, soybeans meal, wheat, and other agriculture products, main client Bunge and other large international buyers. Our company with its association groups has capacity of selling 10 million Metric Tons per year of soybeans, white and yellow corn, soybeans meal. Our power as producer that we secure and guarantee delivery to our clients the quantity requested as we have several sources of production in Brazil and other Latin American States.

CARTHAGO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

We handle international sales of food and feed of nearly 12500 producers of a large cooperative. Also we have partnership agreements with producers in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Another area is the creation and management of large scale development projects in Brazil related to finance, production and transport of agricultural products. 

Who we are

We are closely related to the must famous co-operative the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul – the southern most state of Brazil.
Particularly we act as the international sales office for nearly 12,500 producers and the factories of the co-operative,
 We are experts in  sales, procurement, finance, marketing, project management and logistics.

What we do

We are large scale international providers and exporters of grain, legumes and oilseeds. Also we can offer some derivatives from these products such as meal and oil.
If the producers associated with us can deliver the necessary products we draw on partnership agreements with producers in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
We are experts in finance, feasibility studies. project management and administration. As such we also handle large scale development projects in Brazil related to production, transport and sales of agricultural products.

Our Philosophy

Whenever we do business we always have a focus on sustainability. This goes from the respect to the environment to creating long lasting relationships.
When we promise to deliver a product you can count on us. We will deliver the product on  time and at the agreed upon conditions and price.

What we sell

We only sell agricultural products such as corn, soybean, wheat, sunflower and derived products such as meal and oil.  Through our collaboration with Cotrimao we have acces to a large number of products through the associated producers, factories and partnerships.

Exports

We have all the know-how, the team and the proven experience to export products to our clients. We even have priority access to the port co-owned by Cotrimao. Also the distance to port from the majority of our producers is now very long. In 7-8 hours we have the goods at the port.

Type Of Sales We Like

Customer relationship is very important to us. We prefer to deal with the end client directly and we prefer to keep long term relations. We basically enter into two kinds os sales. Spot sales, which often are to be delivered immediately or soon and recurring sales to our clients. We do everything we can to have good and long term customer relations as well as controlling price, quality and delivery to our high criteria.

CARTHAGO INTERNATIONAL COPRORATION  produce three kind of soybeans.

• Soybeans Transgenic, genetically modified, GMO
• Soybeans Conventional, not genetically modified, NON GMO
• Soybeans Organic

Of course the organic variant is not genetically modified.

-  CARTHAGO CORPORATION specialized in the production of NON GMO soybean. This is much more difficult to produce than GMO, as you have to be more careful concerning protection and follow-up. The demand for NON GMO is going up world wide. We guarantee the pureness of our NON GMO products. There is no chance at all that it becomes contaminated as the production of NON GMO is done on farms (fazendas) dedicated to NON GMO. Also the storage is uniquely NON GMO.

- CARTHAGO CORPORATION mostly produce (grow) our own products with some exceptions.

 

The cycle

In order to produce soybeans we work with these cycles:

• 1. Preparation of the land
• 2. Planting
• 3. Growth
• 4. Harvesting
• 5. Delivery

The wet season in  RIO GRANDE SUL  is from October to May. It is in this period we grow and harvest our crops. Soybeans are planted from the 25th of October until the 5th of January. The exact timing has to do with factors such as climate, type of soybean, time, ressources, and an eventual second crop. Soybean takes 90 to 130 days to mature depending on the variety. The harvest will be from February until May with delivery from April, May and June.
If a second crop of corn is necessary then a precocious variety of soybean (90-110 days) with early planting is chosen. Thus corn is planted right away after the harvest of soybean. The crop rotation is actually good for the land.
If using irrigation we can plant any time of the year and we can handle two and half crops per year. It will never be the same crop three times, as crops need to be alternated with other crops. Anyway, we only have irrigation available on a very small area for now.

Pricing

Soybeans are a commodity. O pricing is complex, but all soybean growers pay attention to CBOT. The Chicago Board of Trade) gives market quotes for soybean options and futures. But our price also depends on the internal demand on the Brazilian market . As this text is been written the prices in  RIO GRANDE SUL are 10% above CBOT. But it might as well go the other way. If we plant for a client all bets are off. Because we then can set the price (usually very favorable) in advance. This is possible as we carefully control our costs and they do usually not vary much. We are very fortunate with the climate in RIO GRANDE SUL. It is rare any surprises arise from climatic changes. A new oil crisis could of course offset our transportation costs. However, in RIO GRANDE SUL the prevision is for falling costs due to much better infrastructures. The perhaps biggest risks for us is the USD/Real exchange rate. This could for a variety of reasons be of some significance. But bear in mind that it has been a long while since the Brazilian currency was unstable as in the past.

Specifications

-  CARTHAGO CORPORATION mostly sell Soybeans according to Brazilian specifications. They are mandated by law and common for all of Brazil.  They are similar to US yellow soybeans grade #2 but the quality is slightly better as there is less foreign matter per definition and the Brazilian soybean generally changes hand fewer times before being exported, signifying less damage. A number of less definite parameters of Brazilian soybeans further amplifies the quality difference in favor of Brazilian soybeans when compared to American #2. However, we have the possibility to create soybeans to specification. Please contact us for more details.

The corn is transgenic, i.e. genetically modified, GMO.

CARTHAGO CORPORATION also have a very small production of organic corn, which of course is not genetically modified.

CARTHAGO CORPORATION mostly produce (grow) our own products with some exceptions

If we do not have a certain product available - either not at all or in insufficient quantity - CARTHAGO CORPORATION will contact our associated farmers in order to be able to deliver.

Contact 

BRASIL : R. Brg. Franco, 1826 - Centro,Curitiba -PR,80420-200,BRASIL

GERMANY: Pestalozzistr. 3510627 ,Berlin,Germany

TUNISIA: Imm Constance Les Bergers du lac ,Tunis ,1053 ,Tunisia

Tel OFFICE BRASIL :00554198198862

Tel OFFICE TUNISIA : 0021698342000

Tel OFFICE GERMANY :0049 (0)1794658617

 E-mail :Badr@carthagocorporation.com.tn/Tunsbras@dr.com

MANDATE SELLER IN BRASIL 

Mr. Luiz   A.  Cortez  Ferreira

Mobile: +55-44-9775-9521 ( tim)

               +55-44-8861-8198 ( claro)
               +55-44-9184-5783  (vivo )
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Email: commodities.timexgroup@hotmail.com
Mato Grosso -  Paraná  -  Brazil.