LOCATION: .

245 km (153 miles) north of Cuiabá.   (see map)

POPULATION:

10,000

ATTITUDE:

460m (1,518 ft)

Agribusiness

Perdigão

Soybeans:

• 350,000 hectares under cultivation

• average production 54 sacks soybeans p/ha

• Bunge to build new crusher

Corn:

• 90,000 hectares under cultivation

• average production 60 sacks per hectare.

• planted after soybean harvest (Jan-May)

Poultry:

• Second largest poultry producer in the country

Land:

• Cash price for cleared and producing land is R$7,000 ha. (Dec 2007)

• Argentineans have entered the NM land market.

Ranking:

• One of the primary agricultural regions in the State of Mato Grosso and Brazil.

• Ranked 4th nationally in grain production