In Brazil, Safras & Mercado reported that the harvest of the 2024/25 summer corn crop in Brazil reached 16.1% of the estimated area of 3.512 million hectares as of the end of January.
Harvesting work has reached 39.8% of the 886,000-hectare cultivated area in Rio Grande do Sul state, 26.7% of the 583,000 hectares planted in Santa Catarina, 7.3% of the 532,000-hectare cultivated area in Paraná, 5.2% of the 294,000 hectares planted in São Paulo and 0.4% of the 858,000 hectares cultivated in Minas Gerais. Work has not yet begun in the other states, according to the report.
In the same period last year, the harvest reached 19.8% of the estimated area of 3.972 million hectares for the 2023/24 summer harvest. The average harvest over the last five years for the period is 14.6%, the report added.
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Tags: Brazil, corn
Category: Food & Agriculture
