By Marcos Tosi
This year, when Brazil is expected to surpass the 300 million tonnes mark for the first time, a logistic bottleneck will be accentuated, reaching an equally historical level: 120 million tonnes will not have storage space.
This is more than the entire crop of Argentina, which faces a third consecutive year of drought and will harvest only 75 million tonnes, against an initial estimate of 122 million tonnes.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends that countries have storage structures to hold at least 1.2 times the size of their harvests.
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