Drought in the central area. The lower leaves have already begun to turn yellow in the plants that have managed to emerge despite the lack of moisture in the soil and their development is delayed. In other batches they did not hatch.
The drought affecting much of Argentina’s agricultural region continues for the third consecutive year, once again threatening to cause significant production and economic losses, and weather forecasts are not encouraging. They warn it from the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange (BCBA). the rains could begin to normalize in October but from INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology) they point it out There is a 70% to 80% chance that the La Niña phenomenon will repeat itself.characterized by low rainfall, which already penalized agricultural production in the two previous campaigns.
As a result of the lack of rain, of the 6.6 million hectares of wheat foreseen by the Stock Exchange for this winter only 6.1 million hectares could be planted and the estimated agricultural production decreased by 10%, going by From 20.5 million tons to 18.5 million, 2 million less.
If the data of the Borsa del Rosario (BCR) are taken, the loss is even greater, since calculate a decrease in the area from 6.9 million hectares to 5.9 million e, considering an average yield of 3.3 tons per hectare sWe would lose 3.3 million tons of cereals. “In the central range of the core zone, the regular and bad batches of the weed already exceed 50%,” assured the agency.
On the other hand, the BCR estimates a reduction of 400,000 hectares of maize equal to 3.2 million tons. Even this herb, whose first planting begins in September in the central area, is compromised and protrudes from the Rosario Bag a 10% area reduction in that region along with a 30% drop in nitrogen fertilization, as producers, faced with water scarcity, will try to save on costs before betting on the potential of crops. “In the last cycle, the grasses have not stopped growing and the maize increase was 15% in the central area,” the BCR said. Now with a decline of 180,000 hectares in that regiononly 1.66 million is expected to be planted with corn.
“The present value of production from which, on average, it can be obtained 1 million hectares of wheat and 0.4 million hectares of corn is $ 2.1 billionabout “, specified by the institution.
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“I always sow 40% of my area with wheat, but this year we have been dry since summerthere was no humidity in the profile and the numbers did not return – because despite the good prices the supplies increased a lot – I only earned 10% “counted Diego Pasquale, producer and consultant in the Santa Fe cities of San Jerónimo Sur, Luis Palacios and Carcarañá, some of the hardest hit by drought. “I planted because I had the seed, if I had to buy it I wouldn’t do it, many neighbors did not sow directly“, He added.
In his area, the rains have not arrived for a long time, the harvest should start to take off, but it barely survives. “If it doesn’t rain in 15 days, I dry it, apply glyphosate and leave the texture for the corn used.so that it can take advantage of the fertilization that we have done to the wheat and many manufacturers will do the same as heavy rains are not expected e this is not resolved with 20 or 40 millimeters, it is the sad reality“, he said. Besides, there too “Sowing corn is complicated because the soils are completely dry”he warned.
Around Fijierasouth of Santa Fe, the shortage of rain has been dragging on for four years and have granted a catastrophe certificate to more than one producer at the end of the busy harvest. “We managed to plant all the wheat, but crops are tight, we could not apply urea (nitrogen fertilizer); it is still tillering, with fewer tillers, when it should be more advanced, it will affect the yield; the underlying leaves are already turning yellow; many plants were too small, did not develop root systems and died; Y in the parts of the lots where the seed was a little higher, it did not grow directly; and there are neighbors who have not been able to sow “described the agricultural engineer Maria Aranzazu Gonzalez Ibarraproducer of the area.
On his farm, if they grow corn, it will be later, in the second date planting, but for now he just hopes that some blessed rain will help them survive the thinning wheat plants still standing.
In Parchment, Roman Gutierrez he was able to sow all the lots he had planned but for ten days “the wheat began to suffer from the intense lack of waterthe leaves began to turn yellow, soon they will begin to tangle and if it doesn’t rain we will have very low yieldsIn addition, they have had significant frost damage which will also affect the final result.
While, Giovanni Zingarinimanufacturer of Casilda he chose not to plant wheat this winter because he saw it “would be difficult with the drought”. The previous campaign, second-class soybeans, which were planted after winter crops such as wheat or barley, suffered from a lack of water. “We couldn’t pick it up, because so this year we decided not to take risks and not to plant wheat directly“, She said.
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Source: Clarin
