Management Report 2020
Management Report 2020
SLC Agrícola
Operating performance
2019/2020 Crop Year
Planted area and productivity
The planted area contracted by 2.1% from the previous crop year, due
to the delay in the start of rains in the state of Maranhão, which post-
poned the planting of soybean and consequently reduced the planting
potential of second-crop corn.
Commercial soybean | For the third straight year, we set a new yield
record, which is in line the Company's current strategy of focusing on
maximizing operating efficiency. This yield was 8.1% higher than our
initial projection and 15.4% higher than the national average
(Feb/2021 estimate from CONAB).
Soybean seed | Production of 373,000 bags of soybean seeds, of which
120,000 were used for internal consumption (as seeds for the 2020/21
crop year) and 128,000 in the verticalized model. In addition, 125,000
bags were sold under the brand SLC Sementes. The germination qual-
ity indicator stood at 94.8%.
TABLE 1. PLANTED AREA BY CROP, 2018/2019 vs. 2019/2020
Planted Area (hectares)
Mix of crops
Cotton
First-crop cotton
VA
HA
19/20
2018/2019
2019/2020¹
123,727
125,462
28.0
1.4
72,852
74,054
16.5
1.6
Second-crop cotton
Soybean (com + seeds)
Corn second-crop
Other crops²
50,875
51,408
11.5
1.0
243,148
235,444
52.5
-3.2
89,312
82,392
18.4
-7.7
Total area
1,912
458,099
5,270
1.1
175.6
448,568
100.0
-2.1
1. Climatic factors may affect the projection of the planted area.
2. Wheat, corn first-crop, corn seed and brachiaria.
First-crop cotton | Despite the crop's good development, some areas in
the states of Bahia and Maranhão suffered water scarcity, with low hu-
midity and high temperatures during the crop's planting. As a result,
production potential was slightly reduced, leading to production 3.4%
lower than the initial projection. However, final production reached 1,779
kg per hectare, 5.4% higher than the yield in the previous crop year.
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