Severe flooding in southern Brazil has disrupted the final stages of the soybean and corn harvest

Recently, Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state and other places suffered severe flooding. Brazil’s National Meteorological Institute revealed that more than 300 millimeters of rain fell in less than a week in some valleys, hillsides and urban areas in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Massive flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state over the past seven days has killed at least 75 people, with 103 missing and 155 injured, local authorities said Sunday. Damage caused by the rains forced more than 88,000 people from their homes, with about 16,000 taking refuge in schools, gymnasiums and other temporary shelters.
Heavy rains in the state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused a lot of damage and damage.
Historically, soybean farmers in Rio Grande do Sul would have harvested 83 percent of their acreage at this time, according to Brazil’s national crop agency Emater, but heavy rains in Brazil’s second largest soybean state and sixth largest corn state are disrupting the final stages of the harvest.
The torrential rains are the fourth such environmental disaster in the state in a year, following massive floods that killed many people in July, September and November 2023.
And it all has to do with the El Nino weather phenomenon. El Nino is a periodic, naturally occurring event that warms the waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, causing global changes in temperature and precipitation. In Brazil, El Nino has historically caused drought in the north and heavy rainfall in the south.