Brazil: Corn planting reaches 97.94 percent in Mato Grosso

Published Mar 20, 2023

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As of March 17, Mato Grosso has planted 97.94% of its 7.4 million hectares dedicated to the second corn crop of the 2022/23 season, with an increase of 1.50 percentage points in the past week. This progress falls behind the 99.34% and 99.15% achieved in the same timeframe for the second crop of the 2021/22 season and the five-year average, respectively. The state is now in the final stages of corn sowing in four regions, with the north and mid-north regions at 99.86% and 99.69% respectively, while the northwest, southeast, and center-south regions are slightly behind at 95.22%, 95.64%, and 98.69%.

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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 ...

Source: Abramilho