April 11, 2006

 

Nearly 62 percent of Brazil's 2005/06 soy crop harvested

 

 

Roughly 62 percent of Brazil's 2005/06 soy crop has been harvested as of Apr 7, said agribusiness consulting firm, AgRural, on Monday (Apr 10).

 

AgRural put Brazil's total soy crop at 54.7 million tonnes Monday, on some 22.4 million hectares of land.

 

The states below are at the following stages of harvesting, according to AgRural.

 

State        Harvested             Production Estimates

                     

Parana           77 percent          9.43 million tonnes

Sta Catarina   22 percent          733,000 tonnes

R.G. do Sul    28 percent          8.1 million tonnes

Sao Paulo      66 percent          1.9 million tonnes

Minas Gerais   21 percent          2.7 million tonnes

Mato Grosso    89 percent         15.9 million tonnes

M.G. do Sul    82 percent           4.5 million tonnes

Goias            67 percent            6.7 million tonnes

Bahia            12 percent           1.9 million tonnes

Maranhao       27 percent          963,000 tonnes

Others          39 percent           1.8 million tonnes