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Article: Brazil's grain crop to fall 8.7 percent in 2009
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 7, 2009
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Brazil's grain crop to fall 8.7 percent in 2009
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's grain crop will total
133.3 million metric tons in 2009, down 8.7 percent from the 146
million metric tons registered last year.
According to a study released Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute
of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the projection is lower than the
previous one. The IBGE attributed the figures to losses in the
corn crop and to a reduction in the estimates for the rice, beans
and soybeans crops.
In 2009, Brazil's cultivated area will fall to 47.2 million
hectares, from 47.4 million hectares last year. Soybeans and rice's