RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The city of Sorriso in Mato Grosso, a major agricultural production hub, decreed a "state of emergency" last week after heavy rainfall during the summer grain harvest season led to crop losses and damage to local infrastructure, a government official reported on Monday, March 15th.
The city in Mato Grosso, Brazil's biggest soy producing state, declared a state of emergency on March 11th after some 800 millimeters of rain in the preceding 45 days, according to a statement by a government representative.
The downpours damaged part of the town's grain crop and disrupted local . . .
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