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Brazil’s MY 2024/25 total coffee production is forecast at 66.4 million bags, 0.2 percent higher than the previous season. This timid growth comes in the aftermath of a strong period of adverse weather conditions in the main producing regions, which led to a decrease in initial estimates for the season.

Brazil is the second-largest producer of biotech crops in the world, with 131 events approved for plants. For the 2024/2025 crop season, FAS Brasilia forecasts 68.5 million hectares planted with GE traits. Adoption rates for soybeans and cotton reached 99 percent and for corn, 95 percent.

In August 2020, Brazilian lawmakers submitted to Congress a draft bill allowing Brazilian farmers to grow Cannabis for medical and industrial purposes.

Total ethanol production for 2020 is estimated at 31.35 billion liters, a decrease of 16 percent relative to the revised figure for 2019 (37.38 billion liters), mainly because...

Total ethanol production for 2020 is estimated at 31.35 billion liters, a decrease of 16 percent relative to the revised figure for 2019 (37.38 billion liters), mainly because sugar-ethanol plants...

Post forecasts Brazil´s chicken production in 2021 at 14.4 million metric tons, which is an increase of 4 percent, due to higher exports and greater domestic demand.

Post forecasts 2020/21 cotton area planted at 1.5 million hectares (ha), down 10 percent from the current harvest.