Climate issues to cut Brazil's 2024 grain harvest by 5.9 pct

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's 2024 grain harvest is set to be 5.9 percent smaller than 2023 due to poor weather in several parts of the country, the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported Thursday.

According to the IBGE report, production of cereals, legumes and oilseeds is expected to total 296.8 million tons this year, 18.6 million tons below last year's harves