The Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU) warned that there is “an enormous delay in the harvest of soy due to weather conditions”, alluding to the persistent rains that caused floods and disruptions in the last hours and warned that the situation generates “significant losses for producers.”
At a time when there are several routes cut off due to the climate phenomenon, added to the declaration of road emergency, the ARU insisted in a statement that the agro “it needs to urgently and continuously transport production from the fields,” which is why he assured that the government has “the duty to guarantee the right and conditions of circulation.”
The president of ARU, Patricio Cortabarría, assured that “there will be significant damage to the infrastructure, but we cannot stop removing it,” in reference to the sugar harvest. soy. Regarding the eventual repair of the damaged infrastructure, he clarified: “We put the money in every year, with the taxes”.
According to Telemundo, Cortabarría indicated that the harvest is greater than million hectares, with “quite important” yields and insisted: “We have to grow a crop that is ready and that we cannot wait for. “There is a lot of money at stake.”
There is “an excess water crisis”
When referring to the complications in agriculture, the rural leader recalled that “it has not stopped raining for more than 50 days,” which is why he defined: “There is really a water crisis in excess”. This is how he referred to the rains that generated floods in Artigas, Durazno, Cerro Largo, Paysandú, Río Negro, Salto, Tacuarembó and Treinta y Tres, with 1,347 people displaced, according to the latest report from the Sinai, which also reflected that there are at least 10 routes cut.
Cortabarría highlighted that the soybean cultivation “it can’t last many days without breaking down once it’s ready,” so he asked to work together with the government to reverse the impact of the drought. “There is a lot of money at stake and a lot of people who come with a very important blow from the last harvest. This year they have to raise that harvest to be able to recover,” he said.
Controversy with the mayors
On the other hand, the president of ARU acknowledged “some mishaps a few weeks ago with some trucks that left in the rain,” in reference to the controversy with forestry companies and mayors.
“Was truck fines and it seems to me that what we have to do is call on all departmental governments to work together,” Cortabarría said.
Thus he referred mainly to the discharge of the Mayor of Paysandú, Nicolás Olivera, who published on his X account an image of trucks loaded with logs using rural road when it was prohibited. “Falling water and a little sign that tells you that you cannot circulate. And then someone gets upset if I say that those of UPM “They are daring,” Olivera said on the occasion.
Source: Ambito
