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State of Mato Grosso Brazil

Nova Mutum
Mato Grosso, Brazil

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

Ranked 4th nationally in grain production

Alto Araguaia

Cuiabá

Campo Verde

Lucas do Rio Verde

Rondonópolis

Sinop

Sorriso

 

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.


 

Bunge Foods Opens New Plant in Nova Mutum
17 June 09

 

Bunge Alimentos opens new plant in Nova Mutum, Mato Grosso BrazilGovernor Blairo Maggi will participate in the opening ceremonies of the industrial complex of Bunge Alimentos along with  Sérgio Waldrich, President Bunge Brasil, and the Mayor, Mr. Lírio Lautenschalger. The plant is designed to process soybeans, degummed oil and meal for domestic and foreign markets. This will be the company's second largest plant in Brazil and first in the area of extraction in a single line. It is the 28th unit in Mato Grosso.

 

The factory was built in 14 months, has 34 thousand square meters of built area on 200 hectares and should generate 100 direct jobs. The annual capacity is 1.3 million MT of soybeans, with a storage silo for 100 tons of grain. Bunge Alimentos is one of the leading food and agribusinesses in Brazil.
 

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Bunge Alimentos (English)