Brazil: After a challenging year, Santa Catarina's rice industry remains optimistic for 2025

In 2024, Brazil's rice industry faced challenges such as reduced harvest, increased prices, and floods in Rio Grande do Sul. Despite these challenges, the Rice Industry Union of Santa Catarina (SindArroz-SC) supported cereal producers and maintained Santa Catarina's status as the second largest rice producer in Brazil. The industry expects positive outcomes for the 24/25 harvest, with Santa Catarina responsible for 12% of the national supply. SindArroz-SC also plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2025.

(By Monique Amboni/SindArroz-SC) As one of the most consumed foods in Brazil and the world, rice and its production chain had to face major challenges in 2024. In just one year, the grain faced a reduced 23/24 harvest, increased prices, was considered devalued and suffered from the floods that occurred in May in Rio Grande do Sul. Despite the difficulties, the Rice Industry Union of Santa Catarina (SindArroz-SC) remained firm in supporting cereal producers in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in favor of valuing the quality of the grain grown in Brazilian soils. During the 23/24 harvest, rice suffered from the El Niño climate phenomenon, which interfered with the increase in average rainfall and cloudiness during the growing season, causing a decrease in one of the main components for the development of the plant, the incidence of solar radiation. Even so, despite a minimal reduction in productivity after the harvest, SindArroz-SC's expectations came true, yielding ...