Imports of fertilizers grow by 8.59% in the year-to-date.

The purchases in August totaled 5.2 million tons, up from 4.7 million in the previous month, constituting the largest monthly purchase ever recorded. The operations included negotiations aimed at the second corn crop in 2026 and the soybean crop for the 2026/27 season. Although production costs are pressuring profitability, Conab highlighted that "the successive national record crops have crystallized in the rural mind the certainty of gain in the bet on agribusiness". From January to August 2025, Brazilian imports of fertilizers totaled 29.45 million tons, an increase of 8.59% compared to the same period of the previous year. In the same period, the port of Paranaguá received 7.56 million tons, up from 6.77 million the ...