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Post expects Brazil to remain the world's largest producer of sugarcane and sugar in marketing year (MY) 2025/26. Total sugarcane production is forecast at 671 million metric tons (MMT), and total sugar production is forecast at 44.7 MMT, raw value.

The Brazilian Food Processors' Association reported 2024 Brazilian food processing sector revenues at US$233 billion, a growth of 9.9 percent compared to the previous year.

Brazil’s corn planted area and production for MY 2025/26 are expected to increase. Low stocks and strong demand led corn prices to high levels in the domestic market, growing producers’ sowing outlooks.

For MY 2025/26, Post forecasts cotton area to grow 2.9 percent compared to the current season, to 2.13 million hectares. Post also forecasts cotton production at a record 17.8 million bales (3.87 million metric tons (MMT)).

For market year (MY) 2018/2019 (January – December 2019), Post revises its apple production estimate down to 1.07 million metric tons (MMT), a 2-percent drop compared to the previous year.

The Brazilian orange crop for MY 2019/20 is forecast at 370 million 40.8-kg boxes (MBx), equal to 15.1 mmt, a decrease of 22 percent relative to the current season, due to weather-related....

On November 5, 2019, Brazil announced its decision to finally implement a long-sought duty-free tariffrate quota (TRQ) for 750,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat imports from non-Mercosul countries.

Post forecasts Brazil's 2019/20 marketing year (MY) cotton area to reach 1.65 million hectares (ha), an increase of about 2 percent on the current season's estimated area of 1.62 million ha.

Post forecasts Brazil's 2019/20 marketing year (MY) cotton area to reach 1.65 million hectares (ha), an increase of about 2 percent on the current season's estimated area of 1.62 million ha.

ATO/Sao Paulo coffee production estimate for MY 2019/20 (July-June) was revised downward to 58 million 60-kg bags, due to lower agricultural and de-husking yields than previously projected....

Post forecasts dairy production to increase by 2 percent in 2020, mostly driven by higher exports of dairy products and an increase in domestic demand attributed to economic improvement.

Post forecasts dairy production to increase by 2 percent in 2020, mostly driven by higher exports of dairy products and an increase in domestic demand attributed to economic improvement.