An increase in wheat production in Brazil should make bread cheaper for consumers

Although Brazil is considered one of the largest agricultural powers in the world, it still suffers from dependence on imports to meet domestic demand for some products, such as wheat. This is because most of the commodity, which is mainly used to make bread and cakes, is produced outside the country. Currently, Brazilians consume between 12 and 13 million tons of wheat per year, while in 2022, national production of the grain should reach a record of around 8 million tons, according to data from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). However, after Brazil adapted wheat production to the Cerrado soil, the country began to count on the possibility of self-sufficiency. The estimate is to expand the wheat production area to one million hectares in an irrigated system in the cerrado and incorporate another 2.5 million hectares in the rainfed system, where the planting is done, without the need for constant irrigation. This would represent an increase of about 4 ...