Climatic phenomena do not give respite to agriculture, that a few weeks after being affected by the floods now faces the threat posed by the intense cold for the crops and the livestock production.
After a 2023 marked by the drought and its consequences, the alarm bells have once again sounded among producers, who are beginning to worry about the low temperatures recorded throughout the country.
Rural producers told Telenoche that the heavy rains a few weeks ago “complicated our work.” sowing of greens, since the seed was not born with so much time under water.”
To this panorama they added the current shortage of forage, since this “complicates livestock farming”. The scenario is completed with “a high consumption of gas for heating” to keep the animals comfortable.
Agriculture had already expressed its tension due to other factors
The referents of the agriculture Among their main claims are: exchange delay, which began in 2022 and is still maintained, with a lag that the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) estimates in the order of 15%, despite the recent rise in the dollar, which reached almost 40 pesos.
In fact, since the Rural Federation They asked that the greenback reach 58 pesos or, in any case, a tax relief to compensate for the delay in exchange rate.
Another question arises from the lack of opening of markets, one of the government’s obligations in international matters, with the impossibility of materializing the agreement of Mercosur and the European Union, or that of Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Finally, the agro-export sector still regrets the commercial debt with Argentina, that could not be resolved despite the arrival of the president Javier Milei to the neighboring country and the gestures in this regard.
Source: Ambito
