The Leafhopper and its consequences wreaked havoc on this campaign, but the side effect will be expressed in the sowing of the 2024/2025 campaignin which Córdoba would lose 900,000 hectares, leaving well below 3 million that were being implemented.
With these estimates, The area to be implemented would be 2,200,000 hectares. The information was provided during a meeting of directors and technicians of the Córdoba Grain Exchange with local journalism.
The Head of the Agronomic Information Department of the BCCBA, Agr. Engineer. Silvina Fiant, reported that in the first survey carried out throughout the territory of Córdoba by the institution’s Collaborators Network, showed that in The trend of corn planting intention will be strongly impacted by the pest and the illness that occurred in the summer of this year.
According to the data collected between producers and companies, the drop in area will be due to 18% of economic conditions, 24% due to the current and future price of the cereal, and 56% due to the influence that the Chicharrita caused in decision making. and Spiroplasma.
“This is the future consequence of the stunting, because the others are still being experienced today while the harvest is developing: the first cut is the harvestable area; the second cut with the returns obtained; and the third cut has to do with the quality, both of the grain (light and low hectoliter weight) como in the forage (low level of metabolic energy and possible problems with mycotoxins)”, Fiant reviewed for Agro Verdad.
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