Brazil increases bean exports, volume from January to November surpasses last year's volume

Published 2021년 12월 13일

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Ralph Karly, a grain producer, has expanded his business from Paraná to Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, Piauí, where he has been successfully cultivating mungo beans for export. This type of bean is a significant part of Brazil's record-breaking bean exports, which reached 200,000 tons from January to November this year. The Brazilian Beans Institute (Ibrafe) is working with Apex-Brasil to promote Brazilian legumes in eight countries, aiming to increase exports to 500 thousand tons by 2025. However, the process faces challenges such as high container rental costs, payment risks, and increased costs of inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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With no area to increase production in Paraná, grain producer Ralph Karly de Guarapuava acquired land in Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, in Piauí, four years ago. There, it invests in the production of beans for export of the mungo type, which is greenish, smaller and rounder than the popular Rio beans and widely consumed in Asia. Son and grandson of German farmers, Karly this year planted 4,000 hectares on the 15,000-hectare property in crop rotation with soybean and corn, obtained a productivity of around 2,000 kilograms per hectare and exported 42 containers of 25 tons each through of a trading. Mungo beans produced in Piauí (Photo: Ralph Karly/Divulgação) The variety chosen by Karly was the basis of Brazilian bean exports, which reached a record 200,000 tons from January to November this year, 74 thousand tons of which are mung beans, with total revenue of US$188 thousand or R$1.05 billion. In the whole of last year, 177,400 tons were shipped. Traditionally, Brazil exports very ...

Source: Agroinforme