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Brazil’s planting area up 4% in 2011
Nov. 16, 2012
The cultivated area in Brazil in 2011 was 2.8 million larger than in 2010, accounting for a growth of 4.3% and reaching a total of 68.1 million hectares.
The information belongs to the Municipal Agricultural Production (PAM, by its acronym in Portuguese), Temporary and Permanent Crops, of 2011. Spread by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, by its acronym in Portuguese), the research comprises 64 crops in 5,565 Brazilian towns.
According to the IBGE, among the analyzed products, 48 of them show positive variance of growth and 36 of them, positive variance of seeded surface – having analyzed ten products, which accounted for higher productivity, compared with 2010. Stimulated by good price during sowing time, cotton stood out with a production growth of 76.2%, due to crop volume increase.
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