From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – The harvest for the 2006/2007 orange crop should reach 353.99 million boxes of oranges in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, a 1.6% increase over the previous crop. Each box weighs 40.8 kilograms. The planted area is currently 667,240 hectares, a 1.2% increase.
Favourable climate is one of the main reasons for the growth. Nevertheless, despite the advance compared with the last crop, the planted area for oranges is smaller than recorded in 2004, when it was 673,000 hectares. The information was provided by the Agricultural Economy Institute (IEA), an organization linked to the government of the state of São Paulo.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum