Brazil Mato Grosso'S Cotton Harvest Hit The Worst Performance In Five Years

Foreign news on August 1, in Brazil's Mato Grosso State, the first batch of cotton sown in January is about to start harvesting. Sowing was delayed and the sowing rhythm was the worst performance in the past five years. In addition, the cotton yield per unit area of the state also worries cotton farmers.

At Santo expeditito farm in the city of jaciara, harvesters are working on 3000 hectares of cotton.

This is done to reduce the impact of bad weather throughout the crop cycle. First affected by rainfall, planting was delayed, and then affected by drought.

"It hasn't rained for 23 days," said silvino bortolini, a cotton farmer. In this case, the cotton can support for up to two weeks, then there will be losses, many plants develop young

Recent climate impacts, unprecedented frost in the region, affecting 300 hectares of cotton, are expected to increase the total loss of cotton production at bortorini manor.

"Some cotton has stopped growing," silvino bortolini said

Murilo Fritsch, also a cotton farmer, began harvesting cotton on Friday (July 30) in a field in the same area.

His crop is also facing difficulties in the growth cycle and should be reduced this quarter.

"We are a lot behind last year," Fritsch said. In the last year, soybeans were planted very late, so the off-season planting was delayed, actually 30 days later than last year. There is no rain in the cotton production cycle, and the last problem is severe cold. I believe our harvest will be 15% less than last year. "

In Mato Grosso, almost all cotton crops have been harvested.

According to the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (imea), cotton harvesting is about 10 percentage points behind the previous year and has slowed down compared with the past five years.

In 2020 / 21, the cotton lint production of Mato Grosso Prefecture is 1.6 million tons, which is 25% less than that of the previous crop year, but it is still the lowest in the past two years.