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SÃO PAULO (Reuters) - Sales of 2024/25 corn in Mato Grosso reached 50.96% of the total volume of a record harvest, an increase of 3.35 percentage points compared to the sales index recorded in the previous month, according to data published this Monday by the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea).
The sales pace is almost 6 percentage points ahead compared to the same time last season, but is behind the historical average for the period (65,81%), according to data from the institute linked to producers.
Last Friday, Imea raised its projections for the productivity of the state's crops and estimated the Mato Grosso harvest at 54.02 million tons, a volume that represents an increase of 7.23% in relation to the previous estimate and 14.52% in comparison with the 2023/24 harvest.
With this, Mato Grosso even surpasses the result of the 2022/23 harvest (52.5 million tons), which until then had been the largest ever recorded, according to data from Imea.
“This record productivity for the state is a result of the good rainfall volumes recorded throughout the cycle, including areas sown outside the ideal window,” explained Imea.
The State has already harvested around 40% of the area cultivated with the cereal.
The advance sale of the 2025/26 soybean harvest in Mato Grosso, which will be planted from September onwards, reached 17.5% of the projected production, also a monthly increase of 3.35 percentage points, but there is a delay both in the annual comparison and compared to the historical average for the period.
(By Roberto Samora)
