BUENOS AIRES, July 22 (Reuters) – Argentina’s 2021/22 wheat crop is deteriorating within the nation’s northern and central farm belt because of insufficient rainfall, the Buenos Aires Grains Alternate stated on Thursday, however stored its harvest forecast unchanged at 19 million tonnes.
Argentina is a crucial worldwide provider of wheat, particularly to neighboring Brazil. The change stated in its weekly report that Argentine growers had sown 98% of the 6.5 million hectares that it expects to be planted with the grain this yr. Wheat harvesting within the nation ends in January.
In northwestern Argentina “the situation of the crop continues to fall week by week, as crops start to undergo crucial improvement phases” amid low rainfall, the change stated.
“Towards the middle of the farm belt, crop situation is progressively deteriorating from east to west, additionally because of dryness,” it stated. However within the southern a part of the farm belt, an space closely planted with wheat, crops have been in optimum situation.
Argentina’s 2020/21 soy crop has already been harvested with 72% of the 2020/21 corn crop already within the bag. The change expects a corn harvest of 48 million tonnes.
(Reporting by Maximilian Heath in Buenos Aires Writing by Hugh Bronstein Modifying by Matthew Lewis)
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