Rio Grande do Sul will harvest its biggest production of winter crops in this 2021 harvest, with 3.7 million tons of wheat, barley, canola and white oats, according Emater/RS-Ascar’s report. The entity points out the most important winter grains will be cultivated in 1.49 million hectares (ha), reaching the highest output in recent years (3.7 million tons are forecast). This represents an increase of 10.8% in the planted area, and a growth of 32.5% in production, when compared to the previous year. Wheat production should reach 2.89 million tons, which represents an increase of 37.81% when compared to the last year (2.1 million tons). Wheat is the leading product in winter, its crop area is 1.08 million hectares, up 13.29% from the previous harvest (953.8 thousand hectares). Currently wheat’s average yield trend is 2.6 ton/ha, up 21.6% from the previous crop (2.2 ton/ha).
Sources: Terra/Arbitrigo (*Translated by Ia Niani)