Anápolis

Catalão

Goiânia

Goianésia

Itumbiara

Nova Crixas

Morzalandia

São Simon

Porangatu

Companies:

ADM

Bunge (p)

Cargill

Decal (ethanol)

Perdigão

Perdigão Plant:

• 3,400 hogs/day

• 320.000 chickens/day

• slaughter, pack, distribute nationwide and export.

Comigo (p)

Agribusinesses and Rural Producers of Southeast Goiás

• Coop Members - 3,883

• Employees  - 1,647

• Soy crushing:  3,500 mt/day

• Soybean oil processing: 150 mt/day

• Fertilizer production: 100 t/h

• Feed plant:  40 ton/hr

• Soap factory:  20 tons/day

• Milk processing: 120,000 liters/day

• Salt process: 36 tons/day

• Cotton Gin: 7,500 arroba/day

• Seed plant: 180,000 sacks/year

NOTE: The expansion of sugarcane production worries the soybean sector in Rio Verde.  To date, the area planted in soybeans in the southwest region of the State has fallen 5%.  New mill projects would further reduce the area by 15%

Crop	Area	Production (mt)	Productivity  (kg/ha)
Beans	3.200	5.880	1.950
Corn	31.000	132.000	5.300
Cotton	4.200	10.700	2.500
Rice	4.500	4.500	1.000
Sorghum	65.000	97.000	1.500
Soybeans	265.000	715.500	2.700
IBGE/ Rio Verde-GO.