Despite the fact that the forest fires in Corrientes seem to have been controlled with the help of rainfall, the losses for the livestock sector are in the millions, which will affect the production of meat.
This, since the province concentrates most of the production of meat of the country, so it will be necessary to implement measures to guarantee the supply of this food.
This, since both livestock production and livestock prices meat they will suffer long-term repercussions as a result of the igneous emergency, which left 11% of the territory devastated.
José María Romero, undersecretary of Livestock and Animal Production of the nation, assured that “80,000 calves could be lost, equivalent to 20,000 tons of beef”.
In addition to the animals, the sector also lost part of the infrastructure, with which it is estimated that the losses amount to 5,200 million pesos, but only with time will it be possible to know what the real deficit is.
In this sense, from the Ministry of Agriculture they warned that by 2023 there will be less production of meatwhile in the short term the lower supply will be in type D and E cows.
In addition to meat, other products were also affected by the fire
The fires in Corrientes destroyed almost a million hectares, so other sectors such as yerba mate and rice were affected by the emergency.
Only in the case of yerba mate is it estimated that 50% of production was losteven some farmers lost everything, as the drought also affected the season.
30% of the volume of rice was also lost, which particularly affected small producers, so it is most likely that the prices of this food rise in the coming months.
