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Brazilian agribusiness is led by giants. In addition to producing soybeans, sugarcane and cotton, these companies transform the sector with innovation and efficiency. Learn the details of the largest farms in the country and be amazed by their grandeur.
Brazil is one of the largest food exporters in the world, and this prominent position is due to a select group of businessmen who control large areas of land and move billion reais.
These agribusiness giants not only produce on a large scale, but also influence public policies and international markets.
In this ranking, based on channel data World of Agriculture, we explore the stories, numbers and curiosities about the biggest farmers in Brazil.
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Each of them represents a fundamental piece in the machinery of the Brazilian agricultural sector.
7th place: Efer Group – 220 thousand hectares
Founded in 1986, Grupo Efer is one of the main grain producers in Mato Grosso, focusing on soybeans, corn and cotton.
According to the Mundo do Agro channel, the group stood out for adopting modern cultivation practices and investing in technology, which allowed its expansion over the decades.
With 220 thousand hectares cultivated, the company maintains a strong presence in the Central-West region, being recognized for its efficiency in the management of natural resources and its high productivity.
6th place: Bom Jesus Group – 374 thousand hectares
The Bom Jesus Group, founded in 1960, is one of the pillars of agribusiness in Mato Grosso and neighboring states.
With 374 thousand hectares of land, the company specializes in soybeans and corn, in addition to standing out in cotton production.
According to Mundo do Agro, the group has grown over the decades thanks to family management and a focus on cutting-edge technologies, which makes it one of the main rural employers in the region.
5th place: Maggi Group – 380 thousand hectares
The Maggi Group, founded by André Maggi in 1977, is an iconic name in Brazilian agribusiness.
With 380 thousand hectares cultivated, the company was a pioneer in agricultural expansion to new frontiers, reaching countries such as Argentina and Paraguay.
According to the Mundo do Agro channel, the Maggi family not only expanded its operations, but also invested in sustainability, with projects aimed at reducing the environmental impact of agricultural production.
4th place: Santa Bárbara Agriculture (Agrosb) – 480 thousand hectares
Controlled by banker Daniel Dantas, Agrosb has 480 thousand hectares of land in Pará, being a reference in beef production.
The group maintains an impressive herd of 170 thousand head of cattle, but also diversified its operations with the cultivation of grains such as soybeans and corn.
According to Mundo do Agro, Agrosb has become one of the largest agricultural companies in Brazil thanks to the use of technology and strategic expansion into areas of great agricultural potential.
3rd place: Bom Futuro Group – 600 thousand hectares
Founded by Eraí Maggi, the Good Future Group is one of the largest agribusiness employers in Mato Grosso.
With 600 thousand hectares cultivated, the company is a world reference in the production of soybeans, cotton and corn.
In addition, the group has a herd of 130 thousand head of cattle and constantly invests in research and development, remaining at the forefront of the sector.
According to the Mundo do Agro channel, Bom Futuro also stands out for social projects that benefit local communities, strengthening its image as a sustainable business model.
2nd place: SLC Agrícola – 684 thousand hectares
A Agricultural SLC is controlled by the Logemann family and operates as one of the largest grain producers in Brazil.
With 684 thousand hectares planted, the company is a leader in the production of soybeans, corn and cotton, exporting to markets in Europe and Asia.
According to the World of Agriculture, SLC stands out for its operational efficiency and use of cutting-edge technology, being an example of how Brazilian agribusiness can compete globally.
1st place: Raízen (Cosan) – 1,3 million hectares
At the top of the ranking is root, a subsidiary of the group Cosan, led by Rubens Ometto.
With 1,3 million hectares cultivated, the company is the largest sugarcane producer in Brazil and one of the largest suppliers of biofuels in the world.
According to the Mundo do Agro channel, Raízen leads the sector with innovation and efficiency, consolidating Brazil as a world reference in bioenergy and sustainability.
In addition to dominating the ethanol and sugar market, the company invests in technologies to improve productivity and reduce carbon emissions in its operations.
The impact of agribusiness giants in Brazil
Brazilian agribusiness is more than impressive numbers; it is one of the pillars of the national economy.
These giants not only produce food for millions of people, but also generate jobs, boost exports and invest in innovations that strengthen Brazil's position as a global leader in the sector.
What did you think of this ranking? Which of these giants of the field impresses you the most? Leave your opinion in the comments!
Simply impressive! Congratulations on the article!
Thank you very much for your compliment! It is a pleasure to know that you found the article impressive. Our intention is to provide valuable information about Brazilian agribusiness leaders and their impacts on the economy and sustainability.
Agribusiness is the most harmful and deceitful sector in Brazil. There is no doubt that it is incredibly efficient and productive. It accounts for a large part of Brazil's GDP. Congratulations. However, look at the consequences for the environment, employment, social costs, etc. I would also like to point out that this is capitalism! The question is simple: what is the measure of income distribution that this sector contributes to? Look at the municipalities that surround this absurd amount of land and tell me what their HDI is? I find it funny that all anyone talks about is the economic results and grandeur! Has its history of deforestation disappeared? Have pesticides disappeared? In short, is this the future that people want for the world? In the face of such efficiency, something just won't shut up! 18.000.000 people below the poverty line! And there is a lobby to avoid paying income tax! And they condemn the proposal to exempt those who earn R$5.000,00. How wonderful do you **** think this is!!!
THE ARTICLE DOES NOT REFLECT THE REAL WEALTH OF THE GROUPS MENTIONED, THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRODUCING ON RENTED LAND AND OWNED LAND, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT RAÍZEN IS VERY RICH, BUT NOT ONLY FOR ITS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY, RAÍZEN IN ADDITION TO PRODUCING ETHANOL, IT TRANSPORTS AND SELLS ETHANOL, BUT THE AGRICULTURE PRACTICED, IN THE VAST MAJORITY, IS ON RENTED LAND, WHILE GROUPS LIKE A.MAGGI PRODUCE MUCH OF WHAT THEY PRODUCE ON THEIR OWN LAND AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENTIAL FOR MEASURING WEALTH.
Brazilian agribusiness is led by giant companies that, in addition to producing on a large scale, influence public policies and international markets. Raízen, Cosan, SLC Agrícola, Grupo Bom Futuro, Grupo Maggi, Agropecuária Santa Bárbara and Grupo Efer are leaders in their respective fields, investing in innovation, efficiency and sustainability. These companies not only generate jobs and boost exports, but also strengthen Brazil's position as a global leader in the sector.
They set prices on the domestic market as high as they want...they stay on the foreign market and the domestic market is family farming. Ok
They ask to remove taxes that the domestic market lowers, for export there is an incentive, it may even seem strange but this is how MORE jobs are generated and more jobs generate more revenue and boost the economy, everyone should have economics classes in a school, but they prefer to have Funk classes and/or presentations, our society today is headed towards being ignorant especially when it comes to economics.
Please could you explain this to me?
If you take away taxes, how do you increase revenue?
Spending less by supporting politicians' privileges
And where would the 300 billion reais come from for the largest Harvest Plan in history to encourage agriculture?
I would also like to know... Demonizing everything that is invested in taxes without looking at one's own **** is very good. In fact, anyone who speaks out against taxes shouldn't even have a company, I've never seen a billionaire from the agricultural sector speaking out against taxes.
Lower taxes, products become cheaper, people buy more. Revenue increases with higher sales volumes. The government has to stop having luxuries because we are the ones who support it! The government does not produce!
To organize society, you need to have a State. To maintain it, you need taxes. It has been this way since the first cities in Mesopotamia, when man stopped being nomadic and became a sedentary farmer. This began about 5 years before Christ.
Yes, but many governments have been overthrown precisely because they favored a few and sucked the people dry of every last drop of sweat and blood.
Governments exist to achieve social balance; if they do not fulfill this role, they urgently need to undergo changes.
And I'm not talking about this or that, but rather about a system that can no longer be sustained.
Perhaps by cutting the 300 billion from the Safra Plan passed on to agricultural landowners, the government could reduce spending.
Less accumulation in the hands of a few and more awareness among the population is what reduces costs. A report like this and you still defend the landowner as if you were part of the same group. LOL
Hello! Have you ever seen a product reduce its prices? If you remove taxes, they increase your profits, and it is unlikely that they will incorporate them into the prices of the products.
The population would spend in another sector. Example.
At the end of each year, what do you or your family do in your home? Make renovations? Make an extension? So if the tax on basic food baskets were eliminated, the population would automatically spend what was left on something else. And so on.
Hahahahahaha he doesn't know 🦜
Just Google the “Laffer Curve.” The study explains the impact of taxation and government revenue.
It is not mandatory for everyone to know it, but if you want to discuss the subject it is important to take a look first.
You shouldn't respond with ignorance, people should take economics classes and you should take a class on what, education comes from the cradle...
I loved the answer.
I just wanted to understand nothing more, these companies with millions of hectares planted, import and export, they own the market. Obviously they make an extraordinary profit, the question is: why does the government have to invest all the years in the harvest plan, like for example 2024 was 270 billion. I would like someone to explain it to me.
I agree in part, on the issue of taxes, I think it should be a single amount, 2% on everything, Marcos Cintra talks about this well. Investment should be in education, public safety and health. As an artist and businessman, I don't agree with the rest, because the most powerful always win and make the best deals.
Artist, broadcaster and businessman sells himself to the system
Wow, so many truths. That's right. The government shoves down the population's throats what is best to deceive the people. The more **** society is, the better for politicians to stay in politics longer, stealing the future of the entire NATION.
Remembering that all politicians are elected
The problem is not with the politicians, it is with the population!!
He appealed and lost, he only spoke the truth.
The biggest Harvest Plan in the country's history, more than R$300 billion for agriculture and we still see this cry that we need to reduce taxes, offer incentives and blah blah blah.
Well, if it is employment that generates revenue, then the one paying taxes is the worker and not the landowner who only accumulates and does not give back in the same proportion.
There's also no point in swapping funk for sertanejo and not studying economics, not finding out about government incentives for the sector and talking so much nonsense about a country's economic turnover.
How much. Nonsense, the domestic market is a loss. Go travel a little to see the prices abroad.
Dollar on the rise Brazilian currency in the ranking of devaluation due to poor management It is logical that exports have more economic advantages for companies in general but it is worth highlighting that they are generating jobs, projects and sustainability. Family farming cannot meet the demand of a giant country like ours
Boy, 70% of the food that reaches Brazilians' tables comes from family farming. Just for the record.
No, only 70% exceeds 80%
You know nothing lol
Knows a lot!!! LOL This one pleases the MST!! LOL These people work hard!!!!
This is information, based on official data. Family farming is what puts food on our table. MST is the largest producer of organic rice and many other foods.
Do you eat organic rice? Can a family that earns a minimum wage afford to pay 46,00 per kg of organic rice? Stop being puppets of ****, and look at the data from IBGE, family farming would never be able to supply the domestic market. Most of the products on the population's table are corn and soy derivatives, and so many other commodities. And then someone comes and talks about ORGANIC rice!!!!!
Most Brazilian food that does not come from family farming is processed food created by agribusiness that is not food, it is processed food!
Exactly, family farming helps a lot in this regard, but what sustains it is large-scale production of any product, from ****
I won't get into controversy, I also believed in this "maxim", until I studied the issue. It would be wonderful if it were true, but it isn't.
Wrong, family farming does help in food production, but what sustains the food market is large-scale agriculture, the production of beans, rice, tomatoes, milk, watermelon, fruit trees, among others, mostly comes from large-scale production, just do a little research.
The dollar is rising because the Central Bank refuses to hold an auction to force it to fall, and this institution is autonomous. Regarding Family Farming, it is the basis for the production of some products that go to the population's table. However, it does not produce protein, it does not produce biofuels, it does not produce wheat, it does not produce alcohol so that the peasant can go to urban centers, it does not produce cotton to make the clothes that the peasant wears. Therefore, wanting to place one group as more important than the other is pure ignorance, since both complement each other to form one of the pillars of the Economy.
To the author of the article, congratulations on the excellent work produced, I had no idea that these groups worked this entire area of land.
But these large conglomerates basically produce soybeans for export.
The production of all these products you posted is insignificant compared to soybeans and corn, especially soybeans, and cotton production does not even have complex irrigation, I do not know the percentages, but these products are far from being produced in the same way as soybeans and corn.
No, because a large part of the land already “has an owner” while others are being taken… So no, family farming cannot do it that way.
There is so much lack of information. With fewer resources for financing, it is clear that we have difficulties, but the report mentioned rice, beans, fruits...well, these are the products that Brazilians consume. Agriculture only serves to contaminate the environment and devastate the rural life of the country people. And most of what they produce goes to export, i.e. feed for **** China, etc.
Maybe you eat sugar cane, or eat soy, maybe you're a **** or a ****! Because agribusiness doesn't put food on the table! Less than 30% stays in Brazil, and I'm sure you don't eat the main products, corn, soy and ethanol! A good part of rice is imported, wheat for our daily bread is also imported, and beans are half agricultural and half family farming! I wonder what data a guy like that bases his claim that family farming can't feed our country! Maybe it's the data from the ass. Because both the IBGE data and any other source of field research show that the demand for food is supported by medium and small farmers!
Without family farming, Brazilians would have no way of supplying themselves. The big guys produce for export. They use our land and water to exhaustion, transforming terrain and diverting rivers. All for money, profit produced with the money of the State that they detest. In the first quarter of 22, 70 thousand tons of pesticides left the port of Santos, which were later served on our tables.
Look, if the 300 billion from the Safra Plan reached the family producer, yes, it would be possible.
It is worth mentioning that it is already the one that maintains internal consumption, just see that the production of these 7 largest is basically millions, soybeans and ****, all export products.
But that's it, the big ones receive incentives, they don't generate jobs (all modernized production that reduces labor), they export everything they produce and accumulate wealth in the hands of a few. While the small ones, who are the ones who actually maintain the internal market, never manage to reach these inventive ones, they barely maintain themselves, but they listen to some ostentatious country music, they think they are part of this same group and defend this cycle that only concentrates more wealth in the hands of the big ones.
This has never worked and will never work!
Look for Murilo Groth's videos on Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube. He explains a lot about agriculture in an easy way and you will understand that all types of agriculture are important for Brazil.
You idiot, if you want something cheap, go plant it and sell it for nothing. Then you buy seeds, fuel for the machines and sell your harvest for nothing, remembering that if you make a loss, there will be no one to help you with the loss. Now, if you want things to be cheap in the domestic market, just demand that the federal and state governments reduce or even eliminate taxes on basic food products.
Only a family farming ecosystem for the domestic market will provide food for the people at better prices for the consumer through greater employment and income.
The big players in agriculture are focused on exports, which Brazil earns the most from
Family farming is essential for the domestic market, ensuring more affordable prices for consumers and generating more jobs and income. However, large agribusiness companies, such as those mentioned in the article, also play a crucial role in the national economy, generating jobs, boosting exports and investing in innovations. Both approaches have their merits and contribute to the richness and diversity of the Brazilian agricultural sector.
Family farming does not even produce enough to sustain itself. No one knows how to use a hoe, sickle or hammer anymore, we know what strong internet and cold beer are.
Family farming is not like that. Try to find out more.
Many times, a family farmer has 50 thousand hectares of land because he uses the area for various crops. I was once a neighbor of one of these farmers and I can say that the concept of family farming has changed a lot. Many of these farmers also have infrastructure with first-world technology and management.
There is nothing to say, keep your mouth shut
You can't lump family farming and the MST together. The former work a lot, the latter very little...
Go see how much a 5kg package of rice produced by the MST costs.
It's organic, has quality, nutrition. In the long run, it's worth the investment.
The dollar is rising due to the mismanagement of the current government, which does not control its accounts. I believe that the project is to transform the country into a Venezuela.
José Eugênio said it all, if nobody keeps doing anything, this bad government will literally turn us into Venezuela, and then only family farming will reign, so I want to see, because in fact, family farming in Brazil doesn't even feed itself, while the other feeds not only Brazil, but billions of people on the planet. These leftists are disgusting, you know. Have mercy.
How many years did Lula and Dilma govern Brazil? And we never became a Venezuela, on the contrary, we were once the sixth largest economy in the world. Now explain why, under the misgovernment of **** ****, we fell to 14th place??? The agriculture that you so venerate exports a lot, and it's true, but much of it goes to feed the pigs in China, but you can't even imagine that, you poor right-winger. Please go study a little before you defecate through your fingers...
It is a fact. But it depends on how we define wealth. Whether it is by assets or by cash generation. I would like to believe that the number of hectares planted has a direct correlation with the cash flow generated.