The Brazilian agricultural harvest reached a record production value of R$ 361 billion in 2019, an increase of 5.1% compared to the performance recorded in the previous year. The data comes from the Municipal Agricultural Production (PAM) 2019 survey, released today by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
“The good results achieved in the last harvests, combined with the compensating prices of the main commodities, due to the high demand on the international market and the favorable exchange rate, contributed to the expansion of the planted areas of soybeans, corn and cotton, in addition to greater investments in agricultural crops”, explained the IBGE, in a note. “Added to this, positive climatic factors, mainly in the 2nd harvest, taken to the field, largely during the ideal sowing period, contributed to the good development of the grains”, added the institute, which noted: “The results achieved could have been even better, if it weren't for the record of a drop in yield of crops such as soybeans, beans and corn 1st harvest in regions of the States of Paraná, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, due to dry periods between the months of December and January.”
Soybean production totaled R$ 125.6 billion in 2019, remaining in first place in the ranking of the value of national agricultural production, despite the decrease of 1.8% in relation to 2018 performance.
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Next, sugarcane totaled R$ 54.7 billion, an increase of 5.3% compared to the previous year, while corn generated R$ 47.6 billion, an increase of 26.3% compared to 2018.
Coffee totaled R$ 17.6 billion, a drop of 22.0%. Herbaceous cotton (seed) showed growth of 24.8% in production value, a record R$ 16 billion.
The other five crops in the ranking with the highest production values were orange (R$ 9.5 billion, an increase of 0.7% compared to 2018); cassava (R$ 8.8 billion, down 11.5%); paddy rice (R$ 8.8 billion, up 0.8%); bunch banana (R$ 7.5 billion, up 8.2%); and beans in grain (R$ 7.5 billion, an increase of 33.6%).
The 10 crops represented 84.1% of all value generated by agricultural activity in the country.
The record grain harvest in 2019 totaled 243.3 million tons, exceeding 2018 production by 6.8%. Farmers planted 81.2 million hectares, an expansion of 3.3% compared to the previous year, with emphasis on the addition of another 1.2 million hectares for corn cultivation and 1.1 million hectares for soybeans.
Mato Grosso, the largest national producer of soybeans and corn, was elevated to first place in the ranking of agricultural production value in 2019, with 16.2% of the national total, ahead of São Paulo, with 15.4% of participation, which excelled in the cultivation of sugar cane. Rio Grande do Sul, the largest national producer of rice and the second largest producer of soybeans, was in third place, with 11.3%, followed by Paraná, with a share of 11.2%.
Source: Notícias Agrícolas
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