Management Report 2020
Management Report 2020
SLC Agrícola
2020/2021 Crop Year
Planted area and productivity
Compared to the initial estimate announced in November 2020, the
planted area suffered a slight reduction to 468.2 thousand hectares due
to some one-time adjustments to the planning still related to the delay
in the start of rains in the Midwest. More details on the planted area are
included in the "Additional Information" section of this document.
Commercial soybean | In the Midwest, the rainy season started later
than usual, which led to a revision of the agricultural plan. After planting,
there was a good distribution of rainfall that supported good crop devel-
opment. Note that, in the Northeast, weather conditions were highly fa-
vorable as from the start of the cycle. 61.8% of the total area already had
been harvested (position at 03/04/2021). To date, the areas are present-
ing good potential and the expectation is to achieve the estimated yield.
Soybean seed | The planting of areas allocated to seed production was
concluded on December. We currently have 10.4% of the crop harvested
(position at 03/04/2021). The areas are presenting good potential and
the expectation is for gross production to exceed the budget. We esti-
mate total production of 470,000 bags of soybean seeds, of which
120,000 will be used for internal consumption and 150,000 for export
under the brand SLC Sementes. For vertically oriented production,
200,000 bags of soybean seeds will be produced.
First-crop cotton | Most of the planted area fell within the ideal plant-
ing window, i.e., up to end-December. The areas already are passing
from the plant development phase to the flowering phase and present
potential to reach the estimated yield.
TABLE 4. PLANTED AREA BY CROP, 2019/20 vs. 2020/21
Planted Area (hectares)
2019/2020
Mix of crops
Cotton
VA
HA
20/21
2020/20211
First-crop cotton
Second-crop cotton
125.462
74.054
51.408
Soybean (com + seeds)
235.444
82.392
5.270
448.568
109.660
78.015
31.645
229.497
110.670
23,4
16,7
-12,6
5,3
6,8 -38,4
49,0 -2,5
23,6 34,3
18.369
468.196
100,0
3,9 248,6
4,4
Corn second-crop
Other crops²
Total area
1. Climatic factors may affect the projection of the planted area.
2. Corn 1st crop (6.391,89 ha), corn seed (460,79 ha), popcorn (911,87 ha), wheat
(675,77 ha), cattle (3.526,71 ha), brachiaria seed (6.069,43 ha) and bean (332,14 ha):
total of 18.368,60 ha.
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