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Increasing productivity of soy Profitability tends to increase when progress is accompanied by technical management and improvement of the production system. According to Décio Luiz Gazzoni, founding member of CESB and the Scientific Council for Sustainable Agriculture (CCAS), and João Vitor Ganem, technical coordinator of CESB, data from the 2021/22 to 2025/26 harvests show that the highest production levels also concentrated the highest rates of return on investment.
Among participants with productivity below 60 sacks per hectare, the ROI was negative at 1.4%. In the range above 120 sacks per hectare, the return reached 186.1%, with an average net margin of R$ of 9,906.88 per hectare.
The ten highest-performing participants in each harvest achieved an average productivity of 126.3 sacks per hectare and a return of 187.61 TP4T. The remaining 4,064 audited areas recorded an average of 87.2 sacks per hectare and an ROI of 1001 TP4T.
The relationship also appeared in the comparison between the areas designated for the Challenge and the plots where they were located. In the 2025/26 harvest, the contest areas had an average increase of 35% in productivity and an equivalent average gain in profitability. The results indicate that, among the participants evaluated, the increase in production was associated with a proportionally greater growth in financial return.
"Therefore, achieving productivity increases in a sustainable way means increasing the farmer's own profitability, while also providing greater sustainability for soybean cultivation in Brazil. May the example of the participants in the CESB Challenge spread to other soybean producers in Brazil," he concludes.
