It reached a total of 1,372,715 tons and thus the sector was able to overcome the drought that affects Uruguay.
The harvest of the campaign 2022/2023 achieved a performance of 9,336 kilos per hectare, according to data published by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), which recorded that 1,372,715 tons were obtained over an area of 147,031 hectares.
According to the report of the MGAP, the zones Center and North-West Coast were the ones that achieved the most outstanding yields of the harvest, with values close to the 9,500 kilos per hectare dry and clean paddy rice. Instead, in the area This, which is the one with the greatest weight in national production, reached 9,296 kilos per hectare.
Thus, a plant was planted 3 percent less than during the previous harvest, according to the publication. In any case, the ministerial portfolio indicated that the estimates of the planted area of the 2023 survey do not show statistically significant differences with the results of the previous one, which was a total of 1,391,424 tons.
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Still, in the midst of the worst drought of the century in Uruguay, he MGAP He stressed that this figure is outstanding within the historical maximums of the rice sector. It is that he managed to overcome for the third consecutive time the floor of the 9,000 kilos per hectare.
From the rice sector they warned about the lack of competitiveness
Uruguay sells rice to more than 60 countries, according to data from the Rice Growers Association (ACA). However, the producers consider that, due to the loss of competitiveness and the exchange rate delay, it is increasingly common to sell non-industrialized rice to other countries.
He ACA president, Alfredo Lago, He mentioned days ago to La Mañana that the country’s cost structure is between 25 and 30% more expensive than in other sectors. Therefore, he estimated that this year a 40% from the harvest it can be marketed abroad with shell and unprocessed.
Lake considered that in Uruguay the rice sector has “an almost unbeatable efficiency” in terms of productivity and quality, but he admitted that there are “idle industrial plants”. In this regard, he estimated that the high production values are calculated in $2,000 the hectare.
Source: Ambito
