Chile: Grain and Feed Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   CI2024-0002
For MY 2024/25, Post estimates that wheat area harvested will total 195,000 hectares (ha), a 2.5 percent decrease from MY 2023/24 to due to high input costs and low prices. Wheat production will reach 1.17 million metric tons (MMT). Post estimates wheat imports in MY 2024/25 to increase by 3.6 percent over MY 2023/24 and reach 1.45 million metric tons. In MY 2024/25, Post forecasts 630,000 metric tons (MT) of corn production, a 0.3 percent increase from MY 2023/24 due to unchanged area harvested and slightly higher yields. Imports will increase by 3.5 percent and total 2.4 MMT to cover domestic consumption from the pork and poultry industry.

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