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Quick Facts:
- Capital:
Cuiabá
- Population:
520,000
- State Pop:
2,500,000
- Area:
906,806.9 km² (350,027 mi²)
- Economy: Agriculture, Cattle
The major producer of soybeans
in Brazil. Also produces 50% of Brazil's cotton. Home to large, vast cattle ranches. A tropical Texas, with room to grow.
Due to the present ag crisis, farmers are switching to sugarcane and feedlot
operations. Presently, 220,000 ha ( 528,000 ac) are planted in
sugarcane. The state government wants to increase this to 1,000,000 ha
(2,400,000 ac) in the coming years.
30 years ago most of the State was in Mato (jungle forest) or
Cerrado (savannah brush). There were no highways, just dirt roads
hundreds of kilometers long cutting through the dense tropical forest.
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Agricultural Revenue in Mato Grosso Down 9.51%
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Rate equivalent to more than double
the national loss of 4.4% in 2009
MARIANNA PERES
The impact of the
dollar on the main commodities in Mato Grosso can be observed in the
loss of 9.51% on the gross value of agricultural production in 2009
compared with 2008. The percentage is the second largest in the
Midwest and twice the estimated devaluation in Brazil is 4.4%.
Within a year, the production value of Mato Grosso went from R$
21.85 billion to R$ 19.77 billion, according to a survey from the
Office of Strategic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock and Supply (AGE / Map) based on the numbers in November.
Even reflecting a global crisis that still suppresses the dollar and
the real value, the estimated revenue for the current year will be
the second best in five years, showing that the worst time in the
field was in fact from 2005 to 2007, when the cost of production of
crops did not allow income due to the imbalance generated with the
high dollar in the purchase of inputs for the planting and the lower
dollar at the time sales.
Among major crops, only soybeans and rice had a positive position in
2009 compared to 2008. The gross value of production of soybeans -
flagship of agriculture and state exports - rose from R$ 11.77
billion, to R$ 12.49 billion, up 6.11%. Rice had a season 08/09
recovery showed reaction in value to grow 17.30%, from R $ 445
million to $ 522 million.
Since the cotton and corn soured devaluations. The first saw the
production value of over $ 5.35 billion in 2008 to $ 3.44 billion.
Corn had the value reduced from $ 3.04 billion to $ 2.11 billion.
Domestic production will close in 2009 at R$ 153.30 billion, against
R$ 160.43 billion in 2008, down 4.44%.
2010 - The Ministry raised the estimate of GP Brazil's agricultural
crops for next year. In the survey conducted one month ago, the
expectation was an increase of only 0.9% in 2010 compared to the
result obtained in 2009 (R$ 153.3 billion, adjusted for inflation).
Now, it is expected an increase of 2.3% for next year, resulting in
a total of R$ 156.84 billion.
There are no regional figures available for 2010, so the estimates
presented last month, remain practically unchanged. The North
remains the only, with an increase in production value of 11% in
2009. The largest reductions occurred in the South (10.4%) and
Midwest (8.6%).
Diário de Cuiabá
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24 Nov 09
Blairo Maggi's About Face
Five years ago Blairo
Maggi would have been the jungle's least likely savior. Since then he
has had a conversion.
Blairo Maggi was once
an eco-villain. While governor of the Amazonian state Mato Grosso, he
cut down vast tracts of primeval jungle to make soybeans into Brazil's
biggest cash crop--and to drive profits for his own family farms.
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Mato Grosso may end the year
with stock passing record corn
29 Oct 09
Mato Grosso may end the
year with record of transit stock of maize, as the National Supply
Company (Conab) has not held new auctions this year. Excess harvest have
are pushing down prices and reducing enthusiasm of the producers.
Especially in Mato Grosso, the abundance of corn indicates short-term
problems to store soybeans beginning the second half of January. |
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Mato Grosso's winter soybean
ban (aimed at reducing Asian
rust pressure) will end at
midnight tonight, which
means farmers can kick off
the 2009-10 planting season
from tomorrow, Sept. 16.
Conditions have been moist
over the past week, which
means soil is in perfect
condition to receive early
soybeans.
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Ferro-Norte expansion will cost USD 413 million
27/05/2009
The expansion of the Ferronorte RR tracks up to the municipal district
of Rondonópolis (Mato Grosso State) will have a valued investment of USD
413 million. The construction of the first stage of the railroad will be
250 km long leaving from the municipal district of
Alto Araguaia, and
should begin in July of this year.
Last Tuesday (19), the president of the Brazilian Institute of the
Environment and of the Renewable (Ibama) Natural Resources, Roberto
Messias Franco, released the license for the railroad tracks
installation to América Latina Logística (ALL), responsible for the
Ferronorte RR administration. The resources will be made available by
the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES, the
Brazilian development bank).
The ceremony occurred in the Federação das Indústrias no Estado de Mato
Grosso (Fiemt) headquarters and counted also with governor Blairo
Maggi's presence, with the vice, Silval Barbosa, with the Fiemt
director, Mauro Mendes, and other authorities. According to Maggi, with
the finalization of the work foreseen for up to 2010, the agriculture of
the State will be highly valorized.
According to the governor, it will be possible to transport the grains
motivating the export of those products. Before that, the director of
Corporate Relationships of ALL, Pedro Roberto Almeida, guaranteed that
the 2011 harvest will be able to be transported through the railroad.
However, Maggi says that even due to the capacity of 20 million bearable
tons in the transport through Ferronorte, nevertheless it would be
insufficient to assist the whole demand in the transport of the soy,
corn and other grains.
"The state needs other alternatives to transport its production, as for
instance, improvement of highways and the waterways use", emphasizes the
governor. He also guarantees that the prices of the freights, main
difficulty for the transport of grains in the State, should suffer
significant reduction.
UPDATE:
17 July 09
BNDES (Government
Development Bank) has agreed to loan Ferronorte R$691 million for the
extension of the rail line from
Alto Araguaia
to
Rondonópolis.
Work will begin July 09.
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