The Drought continues to affect La Plata and a large part of the province of Buenos Aires and the country. Within this framework, the Drought Information System for southern South America (SISSA) published impressive maps that show the worrying situation that our city and the rest of the Buenos Aires territory are going through.
It is a tool that It allows monitoring and predicting the occurrence of droughts, with the aim of promoting planning and preparation to mitigate their damage, increase resilience and reduce vulnerability. In this way, The first map shows the areas with severe drought (orange color), extreme drought (red color) and exceptional drought (burgundy color) that are positioned on the southwest of Buenos Aires, the east of La Pampa and, further north, in the heart of the humid pampas that make up the north of Buenos Aires and the south of Córdoba and Santa Fe; In addition, it is located on the central Uruguayan zone and the Brazilian south.
In this way, La Plata is painted red and suffers from extreme drought. In the same panorama are the municipalities of San Nicolás, Rojas, Saladillo, Chascomús and Brandsen.
Among the tools that are available in SISSA, it is possible to determine the regions in which it has not rained for more than two months, as are the cases of Arrecifes and Rauch in Buenos Aires. At the same time that in Bolívar no water has fallen for 30 to 59 days.
Meanwhile, the municipalities of Pergamino, San Pedro, San Antonio de Areco, Luján, Mercedes and Chivilcoy appear with “exceptional” droughts, a situation that is also going through part of the suburbs and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Further south, sectors of Coronel Pringles, Monte Hermoso, Tornquist, Adolfo Gonzales Chaves, Laprida and Benito Juárez, also experience “exceptional” droughts.
Meanwhile, they are “extreme” in Guaminí, Afolfo Alsina, Coronel Suárez, Daireaux, General La Madrid, Coronel Dorrego and Tres Arroyos; and for the northwest of the province at the height of Trenque Lauquen and General Villegas.
It is worth noting that, just a few days ago, the Buenos Aires government made official the declaration of agricultural emergency due to drought in the matches of La Plata, General Madariaga, Leandro N Alem, Florentino Ameghino, Balcarce, Guaminí, Laprida, Nueve de Julio, Pila, General Las Heras and San Antonio de Areco. The decree highlighted that, due to a extraordinary adverse natural phenomenonthe measure is based on the critical situation that rural farms in those districts are going through.
The core benefit that they will have will be “the exemption from paying the Rural Real Estate taxcorresponding to the property destined to the development of the mentioned activity, in proportion to the percentage of the affectation of the agricultural exploitation reached by the declaration of Agricultural Disaster”.
