Now, and with a water deficit situation that is far from resolved, the entity renewed the initiative until May.
The objective is that producers are exempt from paying contributions during the summer —the most complex months of drought due to lack of rain and high temperatures—, and that they can have liquidity to get bales and rations for animal consumption ; as well as for actions such as cleaning wells and cutwaters.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) send a bill to the Parliament so that contributions frozen since January can be paid in three installments starting in May.
The extension for the payment of rural contributions applies to all producers who develop agricultural operations, totally or partially, in real estate located in any part of the national territory.
The effects of the drought in Uruguay
Uruguay suffers the effects of the water deficit not only in the countryside, which is in a state of agricultural emergencybut also in other fundamental aspects such as the fires —with more than 30 active outbreaks in the territory during the weekend— and the scarcity of water in residential areas.
In this sense, and after the driest January in the last 40 years, the board of State Sanitary Works (OSE) “prohibited” the non-essential use of water in Montevideo and cannelloni -including Gold Coast-, and in Lavalleja, Colonia, Florida, Saint Joseph and Soriano; and does not rule out starting with scheduled service outages.
Source: Ambito
