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Brazil-Grain sorghum seed market grew 23% this year, says study

30/10/2023

Grain is used in the production of animal feed and other inputs for poultry farming, beef cattle farming, dairy farming and swine farming. By Rafael Walendorff — Brasilia The grain sorghum seed market increased 23% this year and generated ...

Canola expansion in Brazil

21/06/2023

(After Tropical Wheat, Another Invention From Brazil Is Coming That Could Transform Agriculture) Main points Brazil is dedicated to the development of tropical canola. Canola is the third most produced oilseed in the world. The country s ...

Wheat Crop in Brazil. Current scenario, culture gains prominence in Brazilian agribusiness

22/11/2022

Culture, which is experiencing a moment of optimism in the country, is gaining more and more prominence due to its liquidity and genetic advances. When you look at the numbers, the growth in importance of the wheat crop in recent years is evident. ...

Brazilian Vegetable Seed Market - Some Information

10/08/2021

We are reporting below some interesting information about some vegetable crops in Brazil as you can see below. TOMATO SEED FRESH MARKET Below we have planted areas by region in 2019, 2020 and 2021 crop years - you can see names of cities that c ...

Cotton in Brazil - Big Increase for next crop

19/10/2018

GENERAL and RECENT SCENARIO Brazilian cotton production reached 2, 1 million tons of crop 2017/18, and after so nice crop results the next crop is being forecasted now at 2, 5 million tons in 2018/19 crop cycle. It means a growth of approximately ...

Brassicas Species in Brazil - Brief Informations

09/10/2018

Brassicas are an important group of vegetable crops in Brazil. The National Vegetable Center of EMBRAPA carried an study about Brassicas channel published in 2017 and from which we could get some info like the ones below: The study was done on ...

Brief news on Sorghum crop in Brazil

26/09/2018

Sorghum is considered a small crop in Brazil when compared with large areas of soybean, corn, sugar cane, etc. At same time sorghum is a good option for Brazialian farmers since and especially the grain sorghum is sowed in period when rainfall is ...

Investing on seed companies in Brazil

06/07/2018

Author:Silmar Teichert Peske In the last three years, in Brazil, several seed companies have been involved in acquisitions or mergers, consolidating the market. The most recent examples were Agrosol, with Semences de France (In Vivo Group), and se ...

Brazil overcome China and USA in Agribusiness

24/04/2018

From a global farm to a technological center of production. Investments in technology and efficient public policies, the Brazilian vocations of big global food producer Brazilian govern support, thru agriculture credit and incentive to the r ...

Carrot Seed Market

25/10/2017

Carrot seed market is one that becomes very attractive in Brazil on last 10-15 years. Reason for it is that carrot growing regions had some concentration, and it moved more and more to regions where the growers are more professional and usually grow ...

Lettuce Seed Market

25/10/2017

Lettuce is vegetable seed specie very popular in Brazil since many years ago. The fact is that in the past(about 25 years ago) majority of lettuce varieties cultivated was butter head type and quantity of seeds used per hectare was very big(almost 1 ...

Vegetable Seeds News - January 2017

25/01/2017

Please see below some briefs news about vegetable business in Brazil last months. 2016 ONION MARKET- According CEPEA entity 2016 was a year in which onion market register extreme values. Growers in the South of Brazil who harvest about November/ D ...

Field Crop News in Brazil - April 2016

06/05/2016

Please see below some news on field crops inn Brazil. According CONAB (National Company of Supply) most recent estimate for 2015/16 grain crop will be 209,01 million tons produced in a planted area of 58,5 million hectares. This means 464,000 hect ...

Vegetable Seeds News- April 2016

06/05/2016

Please see below some news on vegetable business in Brazil. Majority of the info below had as a source CEPEA an entity from São Paulo University published on their Annual report few months ago. For region and species CEPEA conduct a day to day ...

Cotton a Traditional Crop in Brazil

21/11/2015

Cotton is a traditional crop in Brazil and in fact, on the last 20-30 years, there was a big area reduction due to big gains in yield. According Celeres Consulting, on the second forecast round the 2015/16 is projected to reach 1,10 million hectares ...

Sorghum Remains With Area Reduction in Brazil

21/11/2015

Years ago the expectation was that sorghum crop would have an increasing expansion in Brazil. Unfortunately this did not happen and on the last years sorghum is suffering an area reduction. Several facts are negatively affecting the sorghum crop, ...

Tomato is a Leading Vegetable Specie in Brazil

20/11/2015

Tomato is a key specie on vegetable market in Brazil. Total planted area is around 65,000 ha. 25-28% is processing tomato and the balance is fresh market. This market is very important considering the economic and social aspects since it generates a ...

Watermelon crop in Brazil

20/11/2015

The info below has the intention to provide some summary about watermelon crop in Brazil. The graphic below indicates the distribution of watermelon crop by each geographic region in Brazil. On the left side it is the % of production by region wh ...

Grain Production in Brazil

22/09/2015

The recent forecast (April 2016) from CONAB (National Company of Supply) indicates that Brazil will produce 209.01 million ton of grains on the crop 2015/2016. This will be 0,6% more than previous crop. The total area planted in 2015/16 will be 0,85 ...

Brazilian Vegetable Seed Market - Overall Comments

23/09/2015

Vegetable seed market keep growing in Brazil. The below figures published by ABCSEM show this in local currency. More recent news indicate that the value in dollars at growers selling price will be around USD250-300 MM. Mai ...

Tropical Forage Seed Business in Brazil

23/09/2015

Brazil has some utilization of temperate forage seed basically in 3 States in the South Region but since it is a tropical country, the major forage growing area is for tropical grass species. Several years ago, a cooperative project betwee ...

Vegetable Business in Brazil

23/09/2015

In 2014, ABCSEM (The Brazilian Vegetable Seed Trade Association) had contracted once again MNagro to do a review of the 2012 market study. The key objective was to develop some figures for the vegetable market (not seed market) as far as 17 key s ...

Corn Seed Companies Offered 478 New Hybrids to Growers for 2014-15 Crop

22/09/2015

A recent information released by EMBRAPA indicates that the Brazilian corn seed companies offered 478 hybrids to the market for the 2014/15 crop. Conventional hybrids represent 39% of the total, while GMO represents 61%. It is interesting to see ...

Hybrid Rice in Brazil

22/09/2015

(Source - Seed News magazine) Rice is one of the basic typical food in Brazil. Per capita consumption is about 40 kg. per year. It is produced in irrigated and dry lands. Irrigated areas produce about 70% of the total volume consid ...

Seed Market Evolution

22/09/2015

According to the news published by ABRASEM, the Brazilian Seed Association, in April 2014, the total seed market in Brazil was around 4 billion dollars and the seed volume produced jumped from 1.6 million ton in 2001 to 3.0 million in 2012-13 crop. ...

Wheat - Scenario in Brazil - Crop 2015

22/09/2015

Hopefully, considering that everything runs well, the wheat crop sowed during the recent months in Brazil is expected to reach 7 million ton. The total annual Brazilian consumption is about 12 million ton. The two Brazilian states that lead the whea ...

Brazilian Chemical Seed Treatment Market - Growth, Trends and Forecasts (2014-2020)

22/09/2015

(Source – Seed Quest) Seed treatment can be defined as the application of chemical ingredients or biological organisms to the seed that enables in suppressing, controlling or repelling plant pathogens, insects, or other pests that attack see ...