Soybeans average
15.9 quintals per hectare...
and, if
the harvest continues with the trend it has shown in its first third of progress, it could yield a result even lower than the 22 million tons
projected by the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange .
Corn
, the country's main grain in volume, would barely reach 36 million tons, after 20% of the harvest
.
As an effect of the
drought
, the cereal registers a national average yield of 43 quintals per hectare;
like soybeans, at half the levels that both crops had in recent years
.
Thus, the
foreign exchange settlement of the field in April, for US$2,416 million
, rebounded to almost double that in March, but remained 24% below the same month last year, despite the improvement in the exchange rate for the farm dollar
In the midst of this
productive catastrophe, and of eloquent economic impact
, the week was crossed by the jump in the dollar and, towards the end, the political agenda focused on the
"master class" by Cristina Kirchner
.
The vice president continued without assuming responsibilities, neither for the government that she boasted of having given birth to, nor for the
evolution of the country in the 20 years
that have elapsed since Néstor Kirchner became president.
He also did not define if this year he will lead the electoral proposal of the Frente de Todos.
But among so many things that he said, such as insulting the Convertibility that he defended for almost the entire decade that he governed, he expressed some phrases that left cloth to be cut.
For example, as if she were a Harvard analyst, she slipped that
"when you don't have added value, the raw material is subject to volatilities."
It's more of the same, of course.
But at this point in time, on the threshold of the abyss, a request for recognition is insinuated from agribusiness: "More respect."
The countryside paid US$ 175,000 million for the party of two decades "earned"
and even after having verified that it is almost the only sector that manages to charge the world for what it produces, CFK blames the productive model without added value...
Even more.
As the economist Marina Dal Pogetto highlighted this Tuesday in a seminar organized by the Argentine Agroindustrial Council (CAA) held at the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, the exchange rate gap that today has the purchasing power of Argentines in suspense implies
that
exporters
finance to importers, and ultimately to everyone's consumption.
At the same meeting, leaders of the rural base chain and invited economists agreed that agribusiness
should be seen as "a factory for employment and not for foreign exchange"
And they once again called for structural measures that allow productivity to be increased in the long run. term.
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