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C.VALE<br />

REPORT | <strong>2023</strong><br />

CASSAVA MODIFIED STARCH FACTORIES<br />

In <strong>2023</strong>, producers delivered 126,340 tons of cassava roots to C.Vale. The volume processed by the starch<br />

factories in Terra Roxa and Assis Chateaubriand (PR) represents an increase of 12.85% compared to 2022. Of<br />

the total produced, 46,702 tons were starch, which is used by the paper, textile and food industries. In the<br />

last decade, starch factories processed 1,161,430 tons of cassava root.<br />

Cassava receipt<br />

(in tons)<br />

131,793<br />

143,951<br />

118,953*<br />

64,920*<br />

121,226<br />

101,087**<br />

122,371<br />

118,835<br />

111,955***<br />

126,340<br />

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 <strong>2023</strong><br />

*Reduction in planting due to low root prices on the market.<br />

**Prolonged drought and end of the lease contract in Itaquiraí<br />

***Prolonged drought

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