Paraná stands out in national blackberry production

According to the Agricultural Economic Bulletin of this Thursday (9), prepared by the analysts of the Rural Economy Department (Deral), from the State Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply (Seab), the production of blackberries in Brazil is officially recorded in the 2017 Agricultural Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. At the time, 1.3 thousand hectares of cultivated area were accounted for, with a production of 2.8 thousand tons and a Gross Production Value (GPV) of R$ 10.1 million, distributed among 799 establishments. "The survey showed a significant concentration in a few states, with Rio Grande do Sul standing out, responsible for 53.2% of the volumes," the bulletin reports. Minas Gerais, Paraná, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina completed 97.1% of the national harvest. The municipality of Campestre da Serra, in Rio Grande do Sul, was responsible for 21.4% of the quantities extracted from the orchards in 2017. In Paraná, the production reached 914 tons ...