The main agricultural region of Argentina will record new rainfall in the next seven days, the Grain Exchange of Buenos Aires (BdeC), as part of the new climate pattern that has left behind a historic drought that caused serious damage to the country’s agricultural production.
The rains will add to the 20 to 150 millimeters of water that have already fallen in the center of the country since the middle of the month, according to the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR), which on Tuesday announced that “the worst drought in Argentina in at least the last 60 years has come to an end”.
Within the next seven days “There will be a slow frontal passage, which will produce abundant rainfall over the northwest and center-east of the agricultural area”said the BdeC in its weekly agroclimatic report, adding that it forecasts rains of between 10 and 75 millimeters.
A specialist had anticipated to Reuters in mid-March that, with the end of the La Niña climate phenomenon and the transition to the southern autumn that began on March 21, the normalization of the rainfall pattern in Argentina would begin.
Although the rains arrived late for soybeans and corn, whose yields have already been largely defined, they are very favorable for 2023/24 wheat, whose planting will begin at the end of May and which needs to continue replenishing levels of moisture in the soil.
Last week the BdeC said it may have to further cut its already very low 2022/23 soybean crop estimate of 25 million tonnes. With that figure, grain production would be the lowest in 23 years. In the 21/22 season, Argentine soybean production was 43.3 million tons.
Source: Reuters
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