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More losses for corn are likely https://www.reuters.com/business/enviro SAO PAULO, June 30 (Reuters) - Frosts were reported in Brazil's sugarcane, coffee and corn areas on Wednesday, analysts and weather agencies said, as the country saw very low temperatures all the way from the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul to the northern part of São Paulo. "It has been a long time since we saw this kind of frosts in Brazil," Rural Clima's meteorologist Marco Antonio dos Santos said in a note to clients on Wednesday. Frosts hit coffee fields in Paraná, a smaller producer, but also some coffee crops in São Paulo state, Brazil's second largest arabica producer after Minas Gerais. There were also reports of frosts over sugarcane fields in São Paulo, a state that accounts for over 60% of sugar output in the country. "For sugarcane, the impact is more severe (than for coffee in Sao Paulo)," said Celso Oliveira, a meteorologist at Somar, citing the main sugar region of Ribeirão Preto as one of those affected. Regarding corn, losses from the frost are difficult to estimate at this point, as cold weather will persist in Paraná, the second Brazilian producer of the cereal, weather specialists said. But more losses for corn are likely. |
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