National deputies Luis Picat and Martín Ardohain presented a project to declare an agricultural emergency due to the corn leafhopper. The plague is affecting 9 provinces.
It is an insect vector of the Spiroplasma kunkeli bacteria, a lethal disease for cereal. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange cut the corn harvest by 2.5 million tons as a result of the advance of the leafhoppers and the heat wave. But, based on producers' estimates, the damage will be even greater.