Rio de Janeiro – In 2017, Brazil registered a record crop of cereals, legumes and oil seeds, reaching 238.4 million tons. The data is from the Municipal Agricultural Production (PAM) – 2017, shown this Thursday (13) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
In comparison to 2016, the production hike has reached 28.2%, with a 5.9% growth of the harvested area. According to the IBGE, productivity was boosted by favorable climate conditions, after a year that was impacted by the El Niño phenomenon.
Soy accounted for 48.1% of the group’s production, followed by corn, with 41%. The rice output rose 17.4%, with bean output surging 15.9%. Added together, the 14 products of the cereals, legumes and oil seeds group account for 774% of the country’s harvested area and 54.6% of the output value.
Fruit production
The 23 fruit products surveyed by IBGE totaled BRL 38.9 billion (USD 9.65 billion) in value in 2017, up 4.6% over 2016 and a new record. The highlight was the orange production with a value of BRL 8.6 billion (USD 2.13 billion), up 2% over the previous year.
The açaí berry output in 2017 reached 1.3 million tons, with a total value of BRL 5.5 billion (USD 1.37 billion). In 2017, the country produced 17.5 million tons of orange, 6.7 million tons of banana, 1.9 million tons of grape and 1.5 million tons of pineapple.
Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
