Consultancy Céleres revised down its estimate of maize.

Consultancy Céleres today revised down its estimate of first harvest (summer) of maize in 2009/10. A expectation is 8.01 million hectares, 3.6% lower than projected in September and 12.3% lower 2008/9. A biggest drop should occur in Paraná, the largest domestic producer of grain, 21%, followed Santa Catarina, 20%, and Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais, with 15%. If the weather is favorable to Brazil should harvest 31.093 million tonnes Céleres The reports that 19.2% of the cultivated area was estimated to 5 / 10, with an increase of 3.7 percentage points in a week. Since the harvest of second crop corn (second season) is almost finished, reaching 99.3% of the cultivated area in the Midwest.