Brazil: Even with a forecast drop in 2022, rice production meets domestic demand, says Alfredo Guedes of IBGE
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Brazil
Published Nov 12, 2021
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By Bruno Villas Bôas Rio, 11/11/2021 - Even with the prospect of a 3.9% drop in 2022, Brazilian rice production will be enough to supply the Brazilian market, said Alfredo Guedes, manager of the Systematic Survey of the Agricultural Production (LSPA) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). “We had two years in a row of very good rice crops. The 3.9% drop is explained by a high base of comparison.
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By Bruno Villas Bôas Rio, 11/11/2021 - Even with the prospect of a 3.9% drop in 2022, Brazilian rice production will be enough to supply the Brazilian market, said Alfredo Guedes, manager of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production (LSPA) ) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). “We had two years in a row of very good rice crops. The 3.9% drop is explained by a high base of comparison. It is also a very good crop and meets our internal demand”, said Guedes, commenting on the first forecast for the 2022 Agricultural Crop, released this morning by the IBGE. The forecast is for a production of 11.1 million tons next year. The national rice production is concentrated in the southern region of the country and the tendency is for the crop to be completely harvested between February and March of next year. A smaller portion of the production ends up exported, encouraged by the exchange rate. Guedes recalls that the Brazilian government has zeroed the ...
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