Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops
Associated PressURQUIZA, Argentina — The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be green and lush this time of year. “This year’s drought was extreme,” the agricultural engineer said this week at the farm where he works in Urquiza, a town about 230 kilometers from Argentina’s capital. “There are no words to describe the impact of a campaign marked by all-time historical records: a deficit of rainfall for the third consecutive year in the summer, persistent heat waves until well into March, and agricultural frosts as late as October 2022 and as early as February 2023,” said a recent report by the Rosario Board of Trade that has sharply cut estimates for this year’s harvest. “We have no evidence that it’s climate change for now,” said Anna Sörensson, a climate change researcher at the publicly funded CONICET research institute. “I’ve already done a couple of projections and I don’t have enough money to pay the bills of the year to plant again,” said Jorge Bianciotto, who manages the farm where Cuitino works.
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