Dry and hot weather has badly affected soybean sowing in Brazil

01-Oct-2024 06:08 PM

Sorriso. Farmers in central Brazil are getting impatient to sow soybean but due to dry and hot weather and lack of moisture in the soil of the fields, they are not getting the opportunity to start sowing.

Farmers will have to wait for sowing till the moisture content improves. Soybean is cultivated early in Mato Grosso, the most important agricultural producer state of Brazil, and its sowing is completed in a large area by the end of September, but this time sowing is getting delayed.

Though it is not necessary that the delay in sowing will have a negative effect on the crop yield rate, but to get better productivity and good yield,

the more delay there will be in the preparation for harvesting during the coming months, the more delay there will be in the preparation for harvesting, which may affect the sowing of Safrinha corn there because sowing of Safrinha corn starts after the harvesting of soybean crop.

Cotton is also cultivated there along with this corn. The ideal time for sowing these two crops is limited and therefore farmers have to hurry in doing so. It is known that 70-75 percent of maize production in Brazil takes place during the Safrinha season.

Agricultural experts are advising farmers not to sow soybean in dry fields otherwise they may be forced to sow it again.

This will increase the production cost by more than 10 percent. Farmers have been asked to act with patience until it rains a little.

Soybean can be cultivated in small quantities in areas with low moisture so that there is not much loss and the crop is ready on time.