Cristiane Ribeiro
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Rio - The production of cereals, legumes, and oilseed crops - that is, peanuts, rice, beans, corn, soybeans, and wheat, among others - could attain 134.522 million tons this year in Brazil. This would be 12.96% more than last year's harvest of 119.085 million tons.

Increases are forecast for all major productive regions in comparison with 2004, most prominently the South (41.14%) and the Center-West (34.47%). The figures, which were announced yesterday (23), represent the January estimate for the 2005 agricultural harvest, as projected by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) through its Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production (LSPA).

Translation: David Silberstein