Argentina's main farming zones are facing the driest conditions in around 30 years, agricultural and weather experts said, raising fears about a new 'great drought' and stalling planting of corn in the world's No. 3 exporter of the grain.
Corn plants are seen on a farmland in Chivilcoy, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File PhotoBUENOS AIRES, Sept 15 - Argentina's main farming zones are facing the driest conditions in around 30 years, agricultural and weather experts said, raising fears about a new "great drought" and stalling planting of corn in the world's No. 3 exporter of the grain.
Argentina is the world's top exporter of processed soy oil and meal and an important producer of corn, wheat and barley."This is one of the most complex situations we have seen in recent decades. We have to say that it is the worst planting scenario for corn in the last 27 years," Cristian Russo, chief agronomist at the Rosario grains exchange, told Reuters.
Germán Heinzenknecht, a meteorologist at the Applied Climatology Consultant, pointed to farming towns like Pergamino in Buenos Aires province, which had only 6 millimeters of rain in the southern winter from June-August, the lowest since 1933.
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