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The daily average of soybean shipments from Brazil slowed down and reached 582 thousand tons by the third week of June, a volume that is already below the 606.74 thousand tons/day of the same month last year, data from the federal government showed this Monday. fair.
Until the previous week, the largest global producer and exporter of the oilseed shipped 637.56 thousand tons per day and still exceeded the June 2020 average, reported the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex).
Until the third week of June, the country accumulated sales of 7.56 million tons of grain. If the daily average of shipments remains, Brazil could record 12.2 million tons sent abroad, slightly below the 12.7 million in June 2020.
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Despite the delay in harvesting the 2020/21 crop, a large part of soybean exports were concentrated between March and April. In the fourth month of the year, for example, Brazil set a monthly record for shipments, with 17.38 million tons.
Still according to Secex data released this Monday, oil registered strong exports, of 450.9 thousand tons per day, compared to 259.4 thousand in the same month last year.
By: Nayara Figueiredo and Gabriel Araujo | Notícias Agrícolas
