With a delay of ten days, impacted by the climate, Paraná started harvesting the 2017/18 summer harvest. For the current season, a harvest of 22.7 million tonnes. As climate improves, farmers are accelerating the harvest of soybeans and maize from the first crop to avoid further delays in planting the second corn crop that is already underway.
According to the Department of Rural Economy (Deral), both soybeans and maize from the first crop had the beginning of planting late last year because of the drought. The climate normalized in October, but again it hurt the agriculture of Paraná in November with excessive rains. This situation has been increasing since this period and contributed to delay both the harvest of these grains and the planting of the second corn crop.
Deral is estimating a soybean crop of 19.3 million tonnes, only 300,000 tonnes less than the previous crop, which was considered exceptional.
For maize, the harvest should reach 2.97 million tonnes, down 40% over previous production. This reduction is related to the decrease in the area of planting, which was 35%. Last year, 513,627 hectares were planted with maize from the first harvest and, this year, 332,833 hectares.
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