Quick Facts:
 

	Pop: 5,000,000
	Capital: Goiânia - 1,200,000
	Area: 340,165 s/km (212,603 s/mi)
	Smaller than Texas
	Larger than California
	Larger than the UK
	There are several soybean crusher operations and soybean industries in Goiás.
	Brazilian leader in poultry production (14.320 million chickens)
	Soybeans are exported via the Dry Port in Anápolis, Goiás  by rail to the sea port in Vitória, the State of Espírito Santo and from the inland river port of São Simon, Goiás to ports in the Southern part of Brazil.

In 2003, about 6.3 million tons of soybean were produced in Goiás making the State the 4th largest national producer. Total area harvested was 2.2 million hectares (5.28 million acres), an increase of 69.2% when compared to 1.3 million hectares in 1999. Soybean represents 55% of Goiás total grain production.

About 30% of the beans are processed in Goiás.  The primary processing companies are Caramuru Alimentos , Comigo, Coimbra and Granol.  Approximately 70% of the soybeans produced in Goiás are sold in natura, without any kind of processing; the remainder is sold internally and the rest is exported.

Soybeans represent close to 60% of Goiás exports. 2003 figures of the soybean production were as follows: soybean seeds, US$ 474.0 million - 43%, bagasse and other soybean residues, US$ 181.4 million - 16%
(source SEPLAN). 

18 Oct

In Goiás, farmers take advantage of the climate and accelerate planting of soybeans

Rainfall in October is expected to surpass the expected amount.
Area planted expected to increase.

According to IBGE, the area planted to soybeans in Rio Verde, Goias , should be 270,000 hectares, an increase of five thousand hectares compared to the last soybean crop. Production may reach the 840,000 tons mark; an increase of 9%.

Farmer Fabio Ribeiro, who will plant 500 hectares, has chosen an early variety, with a cycle of 100 days, and even before planting has sold 50% of production. "We got a price of $ 45 per bag. Now, to ensure the produce is profit, "he says.

Another producer, Vilmar Oliveira, negotiated in advance 20% of his crop, trading for inputs and soybean seed. "I looked at the financial institutions have already made the pre-fix to avoid problems. I already know what I have to produce to pay what I owe, "he explains.

On Oliveira's farm the order is to accelerate planting, which started eight days earlier than last year. He knows that it can make a difference in January. Adding the eight days together with the 15 from the shorter growing cycle, he will harvest 23 days early compared to last year's harvest. Thus, the planting the off-season planting corn crop can begin sooner.
 

source: Globo Rural

photo: images goias

03 Sept

Chinese are eager to acquire Goiás soybeans

A proposal sent by the Chinese delegation Hopefull & Holding Company Ltd., which will come later this year to Goiás, provides for the initial purchase of 1.2 million tons of soybeans harvested in the 2011/2012. According to the Secretary of Agriculture, Camilo Antonio Flávio Lima, trading with the Chinese with the participation of the state, however, the effectiveness of the process needs to be done by private initiative.

"This entire process occurs when the producer is prepared to deal with such a negotiation. Our government is creating conditions for everything to be done." said the secretary. For him, the cooperatives are the main actors in this process because they possess the knowledge and make the negotiations and securing large quantities of grain. He explained that the interest of Oriental is immediate because they want alternatives to the multinational traders.

The industry says that for the current crop will be difficult to ensure the desired amount of soy for the Chinese, because more than 50% of soya production has been marketed in the future. The suggestion of the producers is to propose negotiations for the 2012/2013 season, when there will be time to organize all the legal procedures, and cooperatives could still give preference to Asia since negotiations were similar or better to those already made with other countries.

For the next few days, Seagro will prepare and send to China a document with the counter and set the date of the visit for the delegation of Goiás to the close of trading. At a meeting yesterday at the headquarters Secretariat to assess the proposal, Antônio Flávio said the governor Marconi Perillo will make a visit to China in mid-September, when he will take a counter proposal, which could result in closing the contract.

source: SEAGRO - Secretary of Agriculture - Goiás

My opinion is that this model of government trying "force" coops or others into agreements with Chinese is not sustainable.

Already delaying to 2013 crop and nothing has been done as per expansion for 2012.

Private enterprise is the only way this will evolve and that takes investment in long term relationships.

All I see here in another trip to China and signing of a piece of paper.

> READ ESSAY: Rule of Engagement for Chinese buying soybeans in Brazil.

Ministry of Agriculture And Empraba Study
14 June 11
 

In a new study the MoA predicts that the greatest increase in sugarcane production will be in the State of Goiás (42.1%) in the next decade reaching 74 million tons by 2021, compared to 52 million tons produced in 2010.

China Looking at Investment in Goiás

24 March 11

China could finance more than R$ 7 billion for expansion of soybean production in the state of Goiás over the next seven years. With plans to directly import 6 million tons of grain a year from the state, four Chinese companies, state and mixed capital, will send a delegation of technicians and experts early next month to evaluate the project which will double the production of Goiás soybeans in 2018. The idea is to minimize the China's difficulties with the import of soybeans.

China has been investing and seeking out partners in Brazil since 2009 in order to meet its current needs. "In 2009, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited China with some representatives of Brazil, to show the agricultural potential of the region. In 2010, we received visits from four Chinese companies followed intense talks.", he said exclusively to DCI, Pedro Ferreira Arantes, a market analyst at the Federation of Agriculture and Livestock of Goiás (FAEG), and representative of the entity in the working group that drafted the proposal to the Chinese in Goiás.

The State of Goiás planted this season about 2.55 million hectares, with a forecast to harvest 7.8 million tones. With Chinese investment, the expectation is to double the state both in production and in the grain growing area in the next seven years to meet the requirement to export 6 million tons a year from China. "If this agreement is closed, the Chinese expect the state to export six million tons of peanuts to them, for years," celebrated.

For this expansion, the state provides to renew up to 3 million hectares of underutilized pastures, which all add up to 8 million hectares, with production of one animal per two acres. "Our proposal is to renew the grazing areas, which have existed for over 40 years in northern Goias, with a very low productivity. Today we have more than eight million hectares of underutilized pastures are areas that have less than a animal per hectare, reaching at most two acres to an animal, "he said.

Mr. Arantes calculated that for every 1,000 ha, it will require an investment of  R$ 2.5 million to clean and prepare the soil soybean production. In addition to the purchase of machinery, storage and infrastructural expansion as well. "The total investment will require more than R$ 7 billion over the next seven years to bring 3 million new hectares online." , said the analyst.

Mr. Arantes expects to establish a pilot project of 100,000 hectares for producing soybeans with the Chinese. After this experience the state will implement its plan to double production.

At the beginning of the decade, China accounted for 3% of purchases of Brazilian agribusiness products. By 2010, the it had reached 14%, taking the lead in imports of products from Brazil. "We will be the farm of the Chinese," concluded Pedro Arantes.

source|: DCI - DIÁRIO DO COMÉRCIO & INDÚSTRIA via Portal do Agronegócio

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