Abstract: Brazil is the second largest producer of plant biotech crops in the world. Area planted with biotech crops is estimated to increase by 16 percent in the upcoming 2011/2012 crop year. The increase is mostly attributed to higher use of biotech corn due to the increase in approvals of new biotech corn events in Brazil and higher availability of subsidized credit for farmers. Post has also updated other sections of the report to reflect new information from trade and government sources.

Key words: Brazil, agricultural biotechnology, biotech corn