Bitter harvest for soybean producers/ SR de Pergamino
“The country lost half of the soybean harvest in its main producing area, due to the severe drought that is hitting the region,” was the harsh diagnosis given yesterday by the Rosario Stock Exchange, establishing the thesis that the defendants did not attack , but they responded to an attack; his lawyer tries to have the case discussed as a homicide in a fight, which has a lesser sentence; the young man said that he only kicked “one or two” when he tried to help one of his friends; He cried before the court and said that “never in his life” had he “intended to kill someone” and that it only confirms, as this newspaper has been reporting, the difficult situation that agricultural production is going through due to the lack of rainfall and that begins to have a strong impact on the economy.
“Although it was known that it would be a very difficult campaign due to the drought, what is seen has overcome the worst nightmares of the producers,” explained the stock exchange entity of the city of Santa Fe, which concentrates the largest agro-export hub in the country, along with other cities. surrounding Buenos Aires, as is the case of Pergamino, where tonight there will be an important meeting between entities to analyze the harsh reality they have, both in the grain harvest and in livestock.
The authorities expected soybean production in the area of most fertile lands (plains in the center of the country), of 19.7 million tons, but now “it is expected to produce 10.7 million tons and the number is derailing and yielding to each week,” the report said.
“There is a drop in the area planted due to the extreme lack of water,” he added.
zero harvest
The expectation is that “there may be producers who do not harvest anything this year. The economic losses will be very great”.
In similar terms, the Grain Exchange of Buenos Aires had pronounced, according to which “the prolongation of the ‘La Niña’ phenomenon (which entails a deficit of rains), which occurs for the third consecutive season, has further aggravated the situation.”
55 percent of the country suffers from a lack of water in its soils, according to the Drought Information System for southern South America (SISSA).
In global numbers of the agricultural complex, exports of grains and derivatives had reached 43,363 million dollars in the 2021-2022 campaign.
External sales “will drop 21% percent (in 2022-2023) in the best possible scenario and 33% in the worst,” according to the calculation of the Buenos Aires cereal market released a week ago. The final result will depend on the appearance or not of rain.
In the case of soybeans alone, the harvest forecast for the current harvest was 48 million tons, but it could drop to 41 million tons in the best scenario or even 35.5 million tons in the worst, according to to report. Argentina is one of the world’s largest exporters of soy beans, meals and oils. It is also an important supplier of corn, wheat and sunflower oils.
As was said, today at 8:30 p.m., the Pergamino branch of the Argentine Agrarian Federation will host a meeting of grassroots entities from the VI and VII districts to discuss the critical situation of the sector caused by the drought.
Luciano Salaberría, president of the FAA Pergamino Subsidiary, according to the website of the newspaper La Opinión of those cities, reported what issues the delegates of grassroots entities will address, which will be attended by other subsidiaries from the south of Santa Fe and the north of Buenos Aires: “We will meet to evaluate what measures we can take as an entity to try to alleviate this situation. There are producers who bought tools for 400,000 dollars, took out loans and now cannot pay them. There are municipalities that declared an agricultural disaster and do not charge for the road network. The Agricultural Emergency does nothing more than postpone taxes, but you have to pay them anyway, and if you don’t have a harvest it’s useless because in a few months you won’t have money to meet those expenses either.”
