Brazil: Corn planting reaches 97.94 percent in Mato Grosso

Advance in corn sowing in the weekly variation was only 1.50 percentage points Work on planting corn second crop 2022/23 in Mato Grosso continues. Until March 17, the state had sown 97.94% of the 7.4 million hectares cleared for the crop. According to data from the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea), in the weekly variation the advance was only 1.50 percentage points. In the second 2021/22 cereal crop, at the same time, planting had reached 99.34% of the area. The average of the last five years for the period is 99.15% Four regions in the final stretch with corn According to Imea, the mid-north, north-west and central-south regions are in the final stretch of corn sowing. In the north 99.86% and mid-north 99.69% of their ...