Newsletter AgriBrasilis - May 09th
Jorge Esquivel Manterola ?is the director of Blueberries Consulting ?and D&E Consultores Associados.?Manterola?is an agronomist, M.Sc in soil chemistry and plant nutrition from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
What are the most important companies in this sector? What varieties are grown, in which regions?
The main producing and exporting companies are Hortifrut, Agroberries , Prize , GiddingsFruit, Niceblue, COPEFRUT SA , Frusan S.A. , Dole Food Company , Zurgroup, CarSolFruit, Northbay Produce, among others.
Blueberries in Chile are cultivated from the Coquimbo region (known as the “fourth region”), with a semi-desert climate, to the Los Lagos region (“tenth region”), with an austral, cold and rainy climate. Different varieties are used in each area. Harvesting time for each variety can classified as early, intermediate or late, with low or high requirements for cold hours.
Three regions of the country represent 71% of shipments: Maule, ?uble and Biobío, and are located in the central zone of the country, with a temperate climate.
Chile grows the Legacy, Duke, Brigitta, Brightwell, Blue Ribbon varieties, among others, although the main Chilean varieties are Legacy and Duke, that account for almost 40% of the country’s total shipments.
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Argentina: Argentina’s wheat?harvest?is expected to?be restored?in 2023/24, estimated at 19.5 million tonnes. (USDA)
Brazil:?Santander?expects to reach US$ 400 million from business deals during the?Agrishow - Feira de Tecnologia Agrícola em A??o.
Archer Daniels Midland Company?reached?historic records for soybean and soybean meal shipments?in?its terminal at the Port of Santos in March.
Chile: It is growing in Chile the?use of aerosol systems of the “puffer” type for the application of semiochemical products, such as pheromones. (Suterra)
Uruguay: According to?Juan Ignacio Buffa, undersecretary of agriculture, “there is no contraindication to consume meat and derivatives of animals that have received the vaccine”. (Ministry of Agriculture of Uruguay)
Carolina Matos ?is an export manager at the?Brazilian Rice Industry Association –? Abiarroz ?and coordinator of the International Trade working group of the Women Inside Trade network.?Matos?was a policy and industry analyst at the National Confederation of Industry, graduated in international relations from Uniceub, with an MBA in trade and international business from FGV.
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What is the status of rice exports and imports in Brazil? What is expected for 2023?
Brazilian rice exports had a better performance in 2022, when comparing the last 5 years, with US$ 657.5 million and a little more than 2 million tonnes sold abroad.
Despite the increase being driven by increased exports of paddy rice, processed rice continued to represent the majority of exports of the product (52.4%). Highlight for exports of brown rice, that increased 200% compared to the average of the last 5 years.
For 2023, we had a smaller rice crop in Brazil, reducing the volume that should be exported. At the same time, we have a greater international demand for the product because of the reduction of harvests in large producing countries, especially in Asia, opening up more opportunities for the diversification of Brazilian exports.
Who are our commercial partners? What new markets should be opened?
The main Brazilian exports destinations of processed rice in 2022 were Senegal, Cuba and Peru – together, they represented 50% of exports. The processed product was exported to 9 new markets, notably Honduras and El Salvador, and recorded a considerable increase in sales to Algeria, Portugal and Spain – increases of 17,124%, 13,751% and 1,073% between 2021 and 2022, respectively.
In 2023 we saw the opening of a large rice consumer market: Mexico. The country has eliminated 20% import tariffs for white rice by December 31, 2023 to curb inflation in the country. Within the scope of Brazilian Rice, a project by Abiarroz and ApexBrasil to intensify exports of processed rice, we are still working to eliminate barriers in Colombia, Peru and Nigeria and open up the Chinese market.
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“We are going to invest US$ 1.6 billion per year in agriculture”, said Ana Claudia Cerasoli , president of Corteva Agriscience . In this way,?the company will increase by US$ 400 million the resources to innovation, research and development.
Adubos Real announced the acquisition of Adubos Vanguard?assets. Negotiation depends on approval by the?Administrative Council for Economic Defense, and involves assets for the production and distribution of NPK fertilizers and for the distribution of basic fertilizers. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.
Embrapa warns?about?the risk of wheat blast?in 2023, a disease caused by the fungus?Pyricularia oryzae. According to researcher Jo?o Leodato Nunes Maciel , among the types of the disease, the leaf blast is easier to control through the application of fungicides, and mixtures containing triazole and strobilurin have shown good performance for control. The second type of the disease, that affects the wheat’s ear, can be well controlled with the use of mancozeb.
Fertilizer imports?value?dropped by 24%?in the 1Q of 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, reaching US$ 3.3 billion. According to Vixtra , specialized in foreign trade, prices were responsible for the decrease, with a reduction of 18% per tonne. Russia led shipments to Brazil, with 29.3%, followed by Canada (12.7%), Morocco (8.1%), China (7.4%) and the USA (6.1%), which together represent almost 63% of the imported value. “The drop in prices?can be perceived as an opportunity for Brazilian farmers, who can take advantage of the moment to acquire inputs at lower prices and increase their competitiveness in the international market”, said Leonardo Baltieri , co-CEO of Vixtra.
Anderson Luis Cavenaghi is the director of agricultural, biological and engineering sciences at Centro Universitário de Várzea Grande – UNIVAG , where he coordinates weed resistance monitoring projects, mainly in the State of Mato Grosso. Cavenaghi is an agronomist, M.Sc and Ph.D in plant protection from Universidade Estadual Paulista.
What is the current situation of weed resistance in the State of Mato Grosso? Which crops are most affected?
The biggest problem currently is the Indian goosegrass (Eleusine indica) with multiple resistance to EPSPs [e.g. glyphosate] and ACCase [e.g. haloxyfop] inhibitors. In addition to this weed, other important ones, such as flaxleaf fleabane (Conyza bonariensis), sourgrass (Digitaria insularis) and amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) are resistant to glyphosate, that makes management difficult.
As for crops, the greatest difficulty is with soybeans, as they have the largest planted area and the fewest options for herbicides to control resistant plants in post-emergence. Even so, resistant plants will be present in the areas and will be a problem for any crop established there, such as cotton and corn, in greater or lesser proportions, depending on the species that occupies the area.
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