Rainfall to overlook Argentina’s drought-hit wheat areas -meteorologist

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Rainfall to overlook Argentina’s drought-hit wheat areas -meteorologist

By Maximilian Heath


By Maximilian Heath

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 11 (Reuters)Present rainfall in Argentina will miss agricultural areas impacted by a drought that has pressured the principle grains exchanges to chop their 2019/20 wheat forecasts, a meteorologist mentioned on Friday.

The west and south of Buenos Aires province and the provinces of Cordoba and La Pampa, areas that urgently want rains to keep away from additional productiveness losses, have acquired little or no rainfall in current months.

Cooler temperatures in these areas have additionally contributed to leaving many wheat heaps in a “crucial state,” mentioned German Heinzenknecht, climate specialist with the Utilized Climatology Consultancy.

The rains had been anticipated, nevertheless, to make their approach to the drought-affected areas on the weekend of October 19-20, Heinzenknecht mentioned.

“In the middle of the second half of October, we may have an enchancment to the west [in rainfall levels],” he mentioned, including that the southeast of…



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