The Survey of Stocks figures relative to the second semester of 2010 point to a 3.5% increase of the number of active establishments...

The Survey of Stocks figures relative to the second semester of 2010 point to a 3.5% increase of the number of active establishments over the first semester. At the end of the second semester, the storage chain of farm products had 9,092 active establishments, among which 43.9% were located in the South Region, 22.9% in the Southeast, 21.6% in the Central West, 8.3% in the Northeast and 3.3% in the North Region.

The useful capacity of conventional, structural and inflatable warehouses amounted to 78,834,250 cubic meters, and a little more than 70.0% were concentrated in the Southeast and South Regions. Grain warehouses in bulk amounted to 55,639,166 metric tons of useful capacity, being 49.2% of this amount in the Central West, and 33.6%, in the South. Grain silos had 50,093,522 metric tons of useful capacity, with 56.6% in the South Region, 25.6% in the Central West and 12.8% in the Southeast.

The biggest stocks on December 31, 2010 were those of grain corn (7,879,753 t), wheat grain (6,026,097 t), dry soybeans (4,214,744 t), paddy rice (2,536,411) and coffee beans (1,076,260 t). Compared to stocks available on December 31, 2009, soybeans, wheat and coffee recorded increases of 113.7%, 15.6% and 5.1%, respectively, whereas rice and corn faced decreases of 2.1% and 24.3%.