Felinto Filho

In Brazil, viticulture stands out for its social and economic importance, especially in the irrigated agriculture of Northeastern Brazil, since the soil and climate conditions associated with pruning and irrigation management enabled obtaining more than one production cycle per year (MELLO, 2018). This is one of the main factors that ensure that the Submédio São Francisco Valley region has productivity higher than the national average, exceeding 44t/ha/year (IBGE, 2022).

Viticulture is one of the most profitable fruit cultivation in the world, due to the high export value, grapes diversity and yield. In Brazil grapes export broke record in 2021, with volumes exported of 76.6 thousand t, resulting in a revenue of US$ 155.9 million (COMEXTAT, 2022 COMEXSTAT. Sistema para consultas e extração de dados do comércio exterior brasileiro. Brasília: Ministério da Economia. Disponível em: http://comexstat.mdic.gov.br/pt/home. Acesso em: 17 jan. 2022.