Soybean planting for the 2017/18 harvest in Mato Grosso, the main national producer of the oilseed, reached 6.27 percent of the area as of this Friday, an increase of 5.09 percentage points in the week, according to monitoring by the Instituto Mato-grossense of Agricultural Economics (Imea). Sowing this year is 10.22 percentage points below that recorded at the same time in 2016/17, according to Imea, reflecting producers' concerns about irregular rainfall across practically the entire country.
Planting has been permitted since mid-September, after the sanitary vacuum. The northeast of Mato Grosso appears as the region where planting is furthest behind in relation to other regions of the State in the current harvest, reaching only 1.70 percent of the area. The previous week, sowing had not yet started at the site.
On the other hand, producers in the west of Mato Grosso were those who sowed the most so far, with 13.48 percent of the area, an increase of 9.15 points in the week. Despite this, it is precisely the west that is most behind in the annual comparison, with planting there 22.83 percentage points below what was seen a year ago. Research released this Friday by Reuters shows that national soybean production in 2017/18 is expected to fall to 109.98 million tons.
Source: Agrolink
