This time it worked: producers from Paraná who put faith in the weather forecast and threw the soybean seeds “in the dust”, days before the arrival of last weekend's rain, are breathing a sigh of relief. The rain came evenly and in good quantities across the state, which should favor germination.
The latest survey by the Department of Rural Economy (Deral) of the Paraná Department of Agriculture, released this week (03/10), but which contains information from the previous week – before, therefore, the arrival of rain – shows that the start of planting of soybeans increased in a few days from 2% to 16% of the total predicted area. The 867 thousand hectares sown correspond to 20 times the territory of the city of Curitiba, which is 43.5 thousand hectares.
“Certainly, in our next survey, this planted area will increase significantly. It rained and there was a respite with dry weather, which is good for the machinery to get into the field”, says economist Marcelo Garrido, from Deral.
In relation to corn, which in this cycle should cover an area 16 times smaller than that of soybeans, planting has already reached 114 thousand hectares, or 33% of the 343 thousand hectares planned. Regarding plant development, 64% has good quality, 30% has medium quality and 5% has low quality. In the 1st harvest bean crop, 65.4 thousand hectares were cultivated, or 33% of the total area. Most of the crops, 52%, are in good condition, 44% in average condition and only 4% are in poor condition.
“The soybean, corn and bean crops from the new harvest narrowly escaped the effects of the drought. There shouldn't be any major problems. The main result was planning frustration, because many producers want to plant soybeans earlier so they can also plant corn earlier, in the second harvest”, points out Garrido.
From the previous harvest, wheat has already been harvested in 71% of the areas, which is equivalent to 681 thousand of the 962 thousand hectares cultivated. Deral's weekly survey shows that 22% of the remaining crops are in good condition, 41% in average condition and 37% in poor condition. This loss of quality, according to Marcelo Garrido, is mainly a reflection of “the drought between June and July, and something that was affected by the frost”. The wheat that has not yet been harvested is in the fruiting (45%), maturation (42%) and flowering (14%) stages.
In the coming weeks, the forecast is for climatological normality, that is, alternating rainy days and dry weather, which should favor the development of crops.
Source: Agrolink
