Brazil needs to import 200,000 tons of beans to balance market

There was decrease in the area planted in the first and second harvest
by Estadão Content


Conab estimates that winter crop beans will be insufficient to compensate for shrinkage of the two previous

Agriculture Minister, Antonio Andrade, said the reduction from 10% to zero in the Common External Tariff (CET) on purchases made ​​from beans from countries outside Mercosur is important because of crop failure in the Northeast and North Minas Gerais. According to him, to balance the market, Brazil needs to import 200,000 tons of beans to the end of October.

"In the case of beans, we have a difficulty in creating buffer stocks because the older the worse the quality of the grain. Hope to return to a balance of production next season," said Andrade to get to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, for meeting National Energy Policy Council (CNPE).

The surveys of the National Supply Company (Conab) show that there was a decline in the area planted beans in both summer harvest (-7.2%), seeded in the second half of last year, as the second crop, which was planted in the first quarter of this year (-9.5%).

The projection is Conab increase in planting of the winter crop (+1%), being sown, but not enough to offset the decline in the other two seasons. The total estimate is Conab recoil 235 200 hectares in planting beans, to 3.026 million hectares. It is expected to fall 2.7% in production to 2.84 million tonnes.

Source: Globo Rural magazine