Soybean planting in Rio Grande do Sul reached 200,000 hectares. The figure indicates that 3% of the total foreseen for the 2018/19 harvest (5.8 million hectares) were sown.
The data are from Emater-RS, which indicates that pace should accelerate even more if time permits, since the harvest of the wheat crop also follows fast, releasing area for soy.
For maize, the crops are well developed due to favorable weather in recent days. There are few reported cases of pests or diseases, such as carcass caterpillar incidence in crops in the flowering phase, which reaches 4% of the total already sown. In this sense, the percentage of planted area reaches 62% of the forecast for this harvest, which is 740 thousand hectares.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.