Soybean sowing season likely to start 10 days earlier in Brazil

12-Jun-2024 03:07 PM

Rio de Janeiro. The soybean sowing season for 2024-25 in the Latin American country Brazil is likely to be 8-10 days earlier than the scheduled date.

Farmers in the country's two top producing states - Mato Grosso and Parana - have started the necessary preparations for soybean cultivation.

In Mato Grosso, the 'soybean free' period is from 15 May to 15 September and soybean sowing usually starts from 16 September.

Brazilian farmers start sowing the second crop after harvesting the soybean crop in the 2023-24 season. Brazilian farmers had requested the government to allow more time for sowing the second crop after harvesting the soybean crop in the 2023-24 season, which was partially accepted.

The demand to extend the sowing deadline for the 2024-25 season was fully approved. Under this, the revised date for sowing of soybean has now been fixed as 7 September in Mato Grosso and 1 September in Parana.

Earlier it was believed that early sowing of soybean would start harvesting early and its export would also pick up soon.

Similarly, if the soybean crop is harvested early, then the sowing of Safrinha corn will also start early and the possibility of increase in its yield rate will remain intact.

Brazil is the largest producer and exporter of soybean in the world and soybean oil and soymeal are also exported from there on a large scale.

China is the largest buyer of its soybean. About 70 percent of soybean from Brazil is exported to China alone. During the 2023-24 season, production in all three major soybean producing states of Brazil - Mato Grosso, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul - was much lower than expected.