MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazil increases cultivation area and expects record grain harvest in 2014
Soybean, corn and rice are the main items making up 91% of the entire harvest Brazil, one of the world's leading agricultural producers, expects a record grain harvest this year of 192.3 million tons, up 2.2% from 2013, the IBGE statistics agency said this week.
Production will grow chiefly because of a larger area under cultivation, with an increase of 5.9% from 53 million hectares in 2013 to 56.1 million hectares in 2014, the IBGE said.
Soybean, corn and rice, the country's three main crops, will make up 91% of the entire national harvest and take up 85% of all the land sown.
Soybean production will hit 86.5 million tons, a 5.8% increase over last year due to the growers' decision to invest in planting the legume as market prices rose relative to corn.
The total corn harvest is estimated at 76.2 million tons, down 5.4% from 2013, due to the growers' shift to soybeans this year.
As for rice, the harvest will come in at around 12.3 million tons, up 4.8%.
Among the products with shrinking harvests will be arabica coffee, down 12.8 percent, and sorghum, forecast to decline 10.6%, as well as sugarcane, off 0.1%.
Brazil, the world's largest producer and exporter of coffee, will harvest 1.98 tons of the bean this year.
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Read all commentsSo how long will the trucks queues be this year with the increase in production.
Jun 12th, 2014 - 09:48 pm 0Last year worked out to 2.6 miles if my memory is correct.
Still they will have watched the WC by then.
Five new ports into operation this year (2013/2014). There were no queues truck, only queues of buyers.
Jun 12th, 2014 - 10:05 pm 0#2 - while five new ports is better than none Brazil still needs many more ports. Infrastructure is woeful in Brazil.
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