Bean Yield in Bags per Hectare by Type

Beans Yield by Type (Bags per Hectare)

In Brazil, bean (feijão) productivity gets reported in 60 kg bags per hectare. The totals follow total = area × productivity × type factor. Carioca beans (the mottled beige kind that most Brazilians eat) come in around 1,500–2,500 kg/ha, or 25–42 bags. Black beans (preto) tend to do a bit better, hitting 1,800–2,800 kg/ha, mostly because their cultivars are usually more vigorous.

The crop runs across three harvests in Brazil. There's the safra das águas (Oct–Feb, rainfed), the safra das secas (Jan–Jul) and the irrigated safra de inverno (May–Sep). The biggest producing states are PR, MG, SP and BA, and CONAB puts out monthly harvest updates. That type factor in the calculator (0.7–1.3) is where you nudge the baseline productivity up or down for cultivar vigor, sanitation and how the field is managed.

Applications

Planning acreage across the three harvests. Setting contract prices with packers and cooperatives. Weighing the economics of rainfed against irrigated. Picking EMBRAPA cultivars (BRS Estilo, BRS Esplendor, IPR Tuiuiu). And reporting for food-security policy under CONAB's PGPM.

FAQ

Why does black beans usually outproduce carioca? The black-bean cultivars EMBRAPA has released tend to be hardier and hold up better against disease, anthracnose and common bacterial blight in particular.

Which harvest is the most productive? The irrigated winter one. Center pivots take water stress (the main thing that goes wrong) off the table and let you control the cycle closely.

What does the "type factor" represent? It's a multiplier on baseline productivity that rolls together cultivar potential, region and how well the farm is run. A value near 1.0 is about average; above 1.0 points to high-tech operations, below 1.0 to traditional smallholder systems.