Wheat producers in Rio Grande do Sul concluded planting this Thursday, 08/18, with an advance of 1 percentage point in the week, after delays in relation to previous years, showed data from the technical assistance and rural extension company Emater- LOL.
China has issued its first national drought alert of the year, as authorities fight wildfires and mobilize specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures in the Yangtze River basin.
Brazil may export a record volume of corn in August, if the most optimistic projections are confirmed, Anec pointed out this Tuesday, which raised its expectations in a weekly report.
Weather forecasts for this week are not encouraging for crops in the south of the country, where a cold front is generating rain and should give way to frost between Friday and Saturday, with a risk mainly to areas of wheat growing in development in Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul.
The country's cotton production should end the year between 13% and 19% higher than the previous year and return to the pre-pandemic pace. This is encouraging news for Brazil and the world.
Regions that depend on the Yangtze River, China's longest river, are having to use bombs and rockets to form clouds amid a long drought that is depleting water levels and threatening crops, and a heat wave that should last another two weeks.
The severe drought is expected to reduce the European Union's corn harvest by 10 million tonnes, falling to a 15-year low of 55.4 million tonnes, consultancy Strategie Grains said in its monthly forecast on Thursday.
Part of rural producers has resorted to judicial recovery. The numbers, for now, are still discreet. The combination of negative events both in the local and global scenario, including the lack or excess of rains in certain Brazilian regions and the war in Ukraine, pushed part of agribusiness into a situation that worries creditors in the sector.
The new crop of Pronampe disbursed by the federal government should reach R$ 15 billion reais soon, said this Wednesday the executive president of Caixa Econômica Federal, Daniella Marques.
Cooxupé's cooperative members' coffee harvest reached 62.77% of the expected total until July 29, a weekly advance of about 10 percentage points, the largest coffee growers cooperative in Brazil said on Tuesday.
