Rice: Brazil Harvests Largest Volume in 8 Crop Seasons

According to the Grain Harvest Bulletin, the increase in production was favored by "good climatic conditions throughout the productive cycle, by sowing mostly within the ideal planting window, and by technologies aimed at increasing productivity," Conab reported. The state-owned company highlighted that the positive scenario was consolidated with the completion of the harvest in the main producing states. "The expansion of areas in almost all regions was also encouraged by rice prices at the time of planting and by policies to foster cereal production," it added. In the Southern Region, crops benefited from periods of intense sunshine, which favored vegetative development. However, the occurrence of wide thermal variation, irregular rains, and high cloudiness episodes compromised the quality of part of the production in certain areas. In the Central-West region, Conab observed that "water deficiencies recorded at the end of summer impacted crops with lower technological levels." ...