For the third consecutive year, Argentina is plagued by a lack of rainfall leading to soil aridification and threatening cereal harvests. AGUSTIN MARCARIAN/REUTERS
REPORT – Cereal exports, crucial for the country’s financial survival, will fall by 25% this year.
Buenos Aires
At the start of the year, the horizon is abnormally clear in the locality of Pujato, about forty kilometers west of Rosario. In the fields on both sides of the road, the maize plants barely exceed the fences. “At this time of year, they should be at least a meter taller,” laments Marcos Giacomoni as he casts his sky-blue eyes over the agricultural land that stretches as far as the eye can see. For this agricultural engineer from the AFA agricultural cooperative, the state of crops in this region, considered the productive heart of Argentina, is heartbreaking.
For the third consecutive year, the country is indeed in the grip of an intense drought which currently concerns more than half of its territory according to a report by Sissa. “Since 2020, we have lost the equivalent of a year of rainsums up Marcos Giacomoni. “In the memory of a farmer, we have never seen such a prolonged drought in time“, adds Luis Golosetti from the top of his…
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