Mapa launches book on hop production in Brazil

The production of hops in Brazil is still incipient, but it already shows great potential. As a result, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply launched the book “Hops in Brazil, Perspectives and Realities”. The publication is the result of a study on the technical and economic viability of hop production in Brazil, developed by the Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Cooperatives in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) with support from the Brazilian Association of Hop Producers (Aprolúpulo ). In addition to providing information on the diagnosis of the current production situation in Brazil, the objective of the material is to offer a technical and economic feasibility plan for commercial planting; the structuring of the hop production chain in the main producing countries, considering their forms of organization, cultivated cultivars, and other technical and economic aspects that may provide a basis for our ...