The volume of agro-industrial production registered a growth of 1.8% in April of this year compared to the same month of 2025. This is revealed by the Agro-industrial Production Index (PIMAgro) of FGVAgro. According to the research, the expansion is due to the Food and Beverage Products segment, with 2.4%, and the Non-Food Products segment, with 1%. Even with these positive data, when observing the numbers in isolation, only two sectors showed growth: Food Products with 3.2%, and Biofuels, which grew 51.3%. In the latter case, the significant expansion is due to the increase in milling and the quality of sugarcane, coupled with the growth in demand for ethanol, driven by the greater competitiveness of the biofuel compared to gasoline. Beverages, for example, contracted by -1.8%, with a generalized decline: -3.1% in the production of Alcoholic Beverages and -0.5% in Non-Alcoholic Beverages. In the Non-Food Products segment, the main negative highlight is the Agricultural Inputs sector, with a year-on-year contraction of -13.3%. Conflicts impact the Agro-industry. At the end of April, the Agro-industry showed a growth of 0.7% year-on-year. Although this is a small percentage, it shows that the sector had significant resilience, given the problems to which the sector has already been exposed in 2026. The main one, certainly, is the conflict in Iran, which hampered the export of some products to the region, as well as increased various production costs, especially fuel and freight. Finally, although the agribusiness sector has shown resilience so far, there are at least three important additional conflicts still to be dealt with: the exhaustion of the Chinese import quota for Brazilian beef; Brazil's removal, starting in September, from the list of countries authorized to export animal products to the European Union; and the new round of tariffs imposed by the United States, which will affect, among other products, footwear and fish.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.