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The drought that marked the month of April in much of central-southern Brazil worsened at the beginning of May and led consultancy AgRural to make a further cut in its estimate for the country's second 2021 corn harvest.
Production in the center-south is now forecast at 65.1 million tons, compared to 73 million in April's projection, the consultancy said in a bulletin this Monday.
The number is based on an area of 12.9 million hectares, unchanged compared to the estimate in April and 6% higher than the previous season, and takes into account productivity of 84.1 bags per hectare, “the lowest since 2018”, he highlighted the company.
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Combined with figures from the state-owned Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) for the North and Northeast regions, AgRural's estimate would result in total production in Brazil of 69.6 million tons of corn in the 2021 “harvest”, compared to 77.5 million in the April estimate and 75.1 million tons in 2020.
Brazil's total corn production in the 2020/21 season was forecast by the consultancy at 95.5 million tons, compared to 103.4 million in April and 102.6 million tons in 2019/20.
AgRural also said that it will carry out a new review of the numbers for the off-season “within a few weeks”.
By: Luciano Costa | Notícias Agrícolas
