The portfolio is studying the measure as a result of the fact that the February rains were not enough to solve the water deficit.
He Agricultural Emergency Committee analyzes the possibility of asking the government the extension of emergency measures for another three monthsbecause the rains that occurred in February did not alleviate the ravages of the drought.
The current agricultural emergency due to water deficit runs through Monday, April 24. However, the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fishing (MGAP), fernando mattoshas declared to the press that “it’s practically a fact“That the government’s measures be extended.
Last Monday, Mattos had already expressed before the Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries Commission of the Chamber of Deputies that having declared an agricultural emergency in the middle of spring was a situation “quite anomalous“, since “a decision of this nature had practically never happened” at the national level and “so early.
Mattos had attended the Commission of Deputies to give an evaluation of how the MGAP has gone through the emergency plan in recent months. For the hierarch, although the situation began to change in February, the volumes of rainfall were not enough to solve the problems faced by producersespecially in the southern part of the country.
The country could lose up to 2,000 million dollars due to the drought
According to the head of the MGAP, “the drought that has caused damage in all productive areas throughout the territory“, for which its portfolio estimates losses of between 1,800 million dollars up to 2 billion dollars. In early February, damage from the drought was already estimated at $1.1 billion.
For the MGAP, this number will continue to rise as the crops are processed. Meanwhile, the impact on exports has already begun to be felt, and next month we will be able to have a more accurate figure on the economic impact.
Source: Ambito
