The second largest cotton producer, Bahia is in the final stretch for the cotton harvest in the 2019/2020 harvest scheduled to begin in June. The perspective of Bahian producers is to keep their production high in the current 2019/2020 agricultural harvest, which should remain at around 1.5 million tons (seed and fiber), a number achieved, historically, in the last harvest. by Bahian producers. With planting started last December, the harvest occupies a total area of 313,566 thousand hectares, and the prospect is to reach an average productivity of 300 arrobas per hectare. The data comes from the Bahian Association of Cotton Producers (Abapa), which completes 20 years of activity in favor of the development of cotton farming in the state.
Despite the moment of instability, due to the new coronavirus pandemic and the sharp drop in the price of feathers, the entity's president, Júlio Cézar Busato, reinforces that producers are doing their part with great courage, organization, technology and optimism in management of crops. “This rate of growth in productivity in crops should be maintained, mainly due to the technological package in seeds, fertilizers and modern pesticides used, mainly in the prevention and combat of pests such as the cotton boll weevil, in addition to the modernization of the cotton production process and training of the people who carry out the crops and the processing of the crop”, he reinforces.
Faced with adversity, Busato believes that producers should reduce their planting area for the next harvest by between 10% and 20%, but that they will maintain jobs in the field. “Cotton growers must continue investing in cotton cultivation, even so as not to lose the structure already in place, such as the work teams already qualified and formed over time and the space already conquered in the consumer market”, he states. Bahia contributes 25% to the national harvest, being considered the agricultural area with the highest productivity of non-irrigated cotton in the world.
Also according to the president of Abapa, Bahia has a technical structure developed for cotton in addition to the natural conditions of the Western region, such as flat and fertile soils made possible by agricultural technology, through fertilization and the increase in organic matter, rainy seasons regular and well-defined conditions, availability of water for irrigation and a favorable climate for cultivation. “These conditions combined make Bahian cotton one of the best in the world. This is the time when farmers must be united around our associations to maintain our business this harvest and to invest again, grow and obtain greater profitability later on, when this crisis is over”, he states.
Source: agrolink
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