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US$ 19BILLION INTHE SUPPLYCHAIN
CNA, Jointly with the Brazilian Seed and Seedling Trade Association
(Abcsem), in late 2017, came upwith a study that consisted in “Mapping
and Quantifying the Vegetable Supply Chain”, which ascertained a total
financial movement of US$ 19 billion in the segment, based on data re-
leased in 2017 relative to 13 crops (considering the separation of table
and industrial tomatoes). Of this total, US$ 3.21 billion corresponded to
input, machinery and equipment companies, US$ 5.1 billion to produc-
tionandUS$10.5billion to industry,wholesaleand retail sales.
The survey of the sector also ascertained the Domestic Gross Prod-
uct (GDP) of US$ 5.3 billion, taxes of US$ 2 billion and salaries of US$
892.4million. Theproductionof the13 surveyed items in2016 reached
16.7 million tons grown in 537 thousand hectares, while the latest of-
ficial information, relative to 2015, furnished by Embrapa Vegetables,
with data related to 32 products, coming from the IBGE and the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), indicated a
harvested volume of 17.9million tons, in 752 thousand hectares.
Thefinancialmovementstemmingfromthe13products,specifical-
lyintheDistributionCenters(Ceasas)throughouttheCountry,reached
US$ 2 billion. Prices fetched, according to the survey, increased by 80
percent over the past five years, while the volumes soldwent up 5 Per-
cent. As for the foreignmarket, a historical series from2007 to 2016 re-
vealedthatexportsregisteredadropfromUS$47milliontoUS$23mil-
lion, while imports soared about 200 percent, toUS$ 820million. “This
trend shows that there still exist great opportunities in the internation-
al marketplace for Brazilian vegetables”, the study concludes.
a 5-percent drop, including lettuce.
This crop, in principle, would not suffer a
reduction in area in the summer and excep-
tions would include the segments for the po-
tatoand tomato industry,whichwereona ris-
ing trend. Not by chance, the most imported
items in the sector include tomato pulp and
pre-fried potatoes, while some time ago, a
big processing plant of these items started
operating in the Country. In the meantime,
the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Sta-
tistics (IBGE), in its systematic Survey of Agri-
culturalProduction(LSPA,ofNovember2017),
detected an annual growth in the area devot-
edtopotatoes(5%)andevenintheonionarea
(1%), but Cepea officials identified a 7.5-per-
cent drop in this produce, “reflection of the
lowpricesinthesecondhalfof2016andinthe
2016/17growingseason,intheSouth”.
For 2018, according toCepea perspectives
the reduction in planted area would reflect in
betterfinancialresultsforthefarmers,besides
strides in consumption stemming from the
more positive economic scenario, despite a
limitation in the still high unemployment rate
andlowgrowth.Ontheotherhand,theBrazil-
ianConfederationofAgricultureandLivestock
(CNA) considered that the difficulties of 2017
didnot discourage the farmers,whohadeven
celebrated higher profits from management
improvements and new technologies, like
protectedcultivationand ferti-irrigation,while
for 2018 they spotted restrictions in invest-
ments in light of the uncertainties, but supply
stagnation and possible higher consumption
couldsignalbetterprices.
MAPEAMENTODASHORTALIÇAS •
VEGETABLEMAP
Levantamentoda situaçãode 13 culturas em2016
Produtos
Área (ha)
Produção (t) Valor (US$milhões)
Batata
134.243
3.934.288
1.607,63
Tomate demesa
18.814
1.538.070
684,18
Tomate indústria
46.448
3.803.167
196,72
Coentro
73.938
1.109.063
575,88
Cebola
42.458
1.578.554
482,64
Alho
11.334
133.217
390,94
Alface
91.172
1.701.872
384,63
Pimentão
11.188
554.904
201,55
Cenoura
22.254
752.196
175,51
Abóbora cabotiá
42.538
680.613
164,29
Abobrinha
20.904
376.268
103,80
Couve-flor
11.079
329.047
61,46
Beterraba
10.938
218.765
54,82
Fonte:CNA/Abcsem,dezembrode2017.
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