The rice harvest ended with a production of 7,162,674.9 tons in Rio Grande do Sul. In the 2023/2024 harvest, 900,203 hectares of irrigated rice were sown. Of this total, 851,664.22 hectares were harvested, corresponding to 94.61% of the sown area. The average productivity was 8,410.21 kg/ha. Furthermore, the final report from the Rio Grandense do Arroz Institute (Irga), released on Friday (14/6), is linked to Seapi.
Still in the harvesting process 1,548 hectares (0.17%). The floods recorded in the State resulted in the loss of 46,990.59 hectares (5.22% of the sown area), mainly concentrated in the Central Region of the State. Nates do Irga teams collect weekly data on rice from producers in Rio Grande do Sul.
In the 2022/2023 harvest, 839,972 hectares were sown, producing a total of 7,239,000 tons.
The president of Irga, Rodrigo Machado, highlighted that Rio Grande do Sul accounts for 70% of national grain production. “The data from this harvest proves what Irga has been saying since the beginning of May, that the Rio Grande do Sul rice harvest, within its share of production in the Brazilian market, guarantees the country's supply. Machado assured that, in this way, there is technically no justification for importing rice into Brazil, assessing that the numbers are very similar to those of the last harvest.
The data presented in the report exceeds, even by a small margin, pre-flood estimates. Therefore, this gives us confidence to maintain the position that, in fact, there has never been a technical justification to prove the trend of rice shortages in Brazil. Even due to the public calamity in the State, stated the interim secretary of Seapi, Márcio Madalena.
Source: Notícias Agrícolas
