Rio de Janeiro – As per Brazilian grain crop estimates issued monthly by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), output should be down in 2016 from last year’s record crop. Numbers released this Tuesday (9) show production of cereals, oilseeds and pulses at 189 million tones, a 20.4 million ton or 9.8% drop from 209.4 million tons in 2015, the biggest national crop ever.
The data are from the July edition of the IBGE’s Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production and are in line with previous projections. In July from June, the crop forecast shrank by 1.5%, even though the harvest area is virtually the same as in 2015 at 57.6 million hectares. Output forecasts declined for the main three products – rice, maize and soy, which account for 92.5% of expected production and 87.5% of harvest area.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
