Inside Brazil’s Citrus Industry

Abstract

This article provides an overview of Brazilian citrus production, acreage, varieties, changes, status of HLB and other production issues, and is based on grove visits in central and southern parts of the state of São Paulo in May of 2019 (Figure 1). Most of the information presented in this article is available from Fundecitrus (www.fundecitus.com.br/English), a private institution maintained with funds from citrus growers and juice processors from São Paulo to foster sustainable development of the citrus industry. Fundecitrus is an outstanding source of information about the Brazilian citrus industry and is currently funded by a box tax being paid by both the growers and processors to support scientific and production research at about 3.25 cents per box.

Keywords

• Brazil