The Western Bahian land, climate, topography, vegetation and deep cerrado soils combined together are what make perfect growing conditions; and why good farmers are producing highly rewarding agricultural crops.

 It must first and foremost be noted that this area is NOT part of the Amazon Rain Forest!  It lies approximately 12 degrees south of the equator and 800km due west of Salvador and 530km North East of Brasilia.  The West Bahia area has a fairly stable weather pattern with a defined wet season and a dry season, and there is no cold season with frosts etc.  The seasons generally change from wet to dry in May and then dry to wet in November, but as we all know with global warming we cannot rely on the weather to do the same as it has done in the past and that is why Nova Brazilandia Ltda strongly believes in irrigation to make it possible to get two and a half or three crops a year off irrigated land.

In the Western Bahia annual rainfall amounts to a minimum of 800mm/year – and a maximum of 2000mm/year (with variations within the region) the rain falls between November and May which is the southern hemisphere summer.  The temperatures are moderate, tropical, and do not alter much from day to day.  Overnight lows at high altitudes (700m + above sea level) may drop to 10˚C, and high temperatures anywhere in the cerrado rarely top 35˚C.  Average temperatures are generally between 19˚C and 29˚C, which makes for good growing throughout the year.  And cool nights during the rainy season are particularly attractive for quality soy, corn, coffee and cotton growth conditions.

The soils are very deep and permeable and are some of the world’s oldest.  They have very low native fertility, due to the high rainfall leaching minerals and nutrients out.  Soils generally have low pH and are also low in necessary trace elements.  The soils are very deep which leads to excellent crop growing conditions, however high aluminum concentration needs to be corrected as does the deficiencies of macro and micro nutrients, which are built up over time.

The temperature, deep permeable workable soils, high sunshine hours, good rainfall, favorable government policies and large available tracts of land make this area extremely attractive for large-scale commercial crop and animal production to fuel the growing world population.