The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Sustainable Production and Irrigation (Seapi), through the Department of Plant Defense (DDV), sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) with proposed dates for the sanitary void and sowing of the soybeans in Rio Grande do Sul for the 2024/2025 harvest.
The letter proposes a regionalized soybean sowing calendar, separating the state into three sectors: South-Southwest, North-Northeast and Altitude Fields. For the South-Southwest region, the proposed period runs from October 1, 2024 to January 18, 2025 (110 days); in the North-Northeast region, from October 1, 2024 to January 28, 2025 (120 days); and in Campos de altitude, the period from October 1, 2024 to January 8, 2025 (100 days) was proposed.
“Rio Grande do Sul has been undermined in its agricultural calendars due to climatic setbacks, which are very pronounced during the sowing period for summer crops. The regionalization of the calendar is a response to these adverse events, providing better conditions for soybean planting”, explains DDV director, Ricardo Felicetti.
According to Felicetti, the regionalization of soybean sowing will also have good consequences for corn cultivation. “Corn is directly impacted by the soybean calendar, because, in many crops in the state, its cultivation precedes soybeans. Furthermore, it is a strategic crop for agricultural production in Rio Grande do Sul,” he details.
The period of the sanitary void, which will be the same in all regions of the state, was proposed to occur from July 3 to September 30, 2024. During the sanitary void, soybean plants cannot be kept alive at any stage of development. “It is a strategy for controlling Asian rust, a disease caused by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi”, concludes Felicetti.
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