Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

As of today, the IBGE makes available the complete time series of the Municipal Agricultural Production Survey - PAM between 1974 and 2015 in the IBGE System of Automatic Recovery - SIDRA. Only the data from 1990 onwards were available until now. As a result, data previously available only in the restricted Statistical Multidimensional Database - BME are now comprising the SIDRA archive, making the information more accessible to the external public, who can check the planted area, harvested area, amount produced, average yield and value of production of 64 crops in different Brazilian municipalities.

It is important to follow the notes below in order to correctly interpret the time series:

1. The municipalities with no information for at least one farm product do not appear on the lists.
2. As of 2001, the amount produced of avocado, banana, khaki, fig, guava, orange, lemon, apple, papaya, mango, passion fruit, quince, watermelon, melon, pear, peach and tangerine are now expressed in tonnes. They were expressed in thousand fruits in the previous years, except for banana, which was expressed in thousand bunches. The average yield is now expressed in kg/ha. It was expressed in fruits/ha in the previous years, except for banana, which was expressed in bunches/ha.
3. The measurement units of the fruit plants were changed in 2001. The conversion table from fruits to kilograms can be found in document: https://sidra.ibge.gov.br/content/documentos/pam/AlteracoesUnidadesMedidaFrutas.pdf.
4. Up to 2001, coffee was expressed in coconuts; from 2002 onwards, processed or in grain.
5. Sunflower and triticale have information only after 2005.
6. The amount produced of pineapple and coconut is expressed in thousand fruits and the average yield, in fruits/ha.
7. Values for the "Total" category are not available for "Amount produced" and "Average yield" variables, since the measurement units differ for certain products.
8. Successive and simultaneous (simple, associated and/or staggered) crops are admitted in the same year and in the same place. As a result, the informed cropped area could exceed the geographic area of the municipality.
9. Pineapple, sugarcane, castor beans and cassava crops are considered lasting temporary crops. Their vegetative cycles usually surpass 12 months and, as a result, the information is computed in the harvests carried out within each calendar year (12 months). In these crops, the planted area refers to the area destined to harvest in the year.
10. The difference between the planted area or area destined to harvest and the harvested area in the crop is considered lost area.

Directorate of Surveys
September 5, 2017