Paris, 30 May 2024 (IICA) – While the situation varies across different areas and droughts persist in some regions, climatic conditions for agricultural production have been improving in the Southern Cone and now offer positive prospects in much of the territory, according to a report prepared by specialists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The study, requested by the Cooperative Program for the Technological Development of Agri-Food and Agro-Industrial Sectors of the Southern Cone (PROCISUR), was presented to the ministers and high-level agricultural authorities of the countries that comprise the Southern Agricultural Council (CAS) during a meeting in Paris.
The meeting took place in the French capital because the General Assembly of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), a key institution for the productive systems and food trade of the region, is being held there this week. The CAS, whose technical secretariat is managed by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), serves as a forum for consultation and coordination of regional actions, and is comprised of the ministers of agriculture of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Attendees of the meeting included Fernando Vilella, Secretary of Bioeconomy of Argentina and pro tempore president of CAS; Fernando Mattos, Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Uruguay; Esteban Valenzuela, Minister of Agriculture of Chile; Carlos Goulart, Secretary of Agricultural Defense of Brazil; Jose Carlos Martin, President of the National Animal Quality and Health Service (SENACSA) of Paraguay; and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA.
After the extreme droughts that affected the central and southern regions of South America with severe economic and social impacts, these conditions have improved during the summer and autumn to varying degrees across different areas, according to the report prepared by Pablo Mercuri (INTA of Argentina), Giampaolo Pellegrino (EMBRAPA of Brazil), Gustavo Chacon (INIA of Chile), Edgar Mayeregger (MAG of Paraguay), and Guadalupe Tiscornia (INIA of Uruguay). In this sense, significant rains were recorded in many regions between January and March, which normalized the availability of water in the soil and in various basins and natural reservoirs.
However, the report warns that droughts persist in areas of Chile and Argentina bordering the Andes, the northern region of Cuyo, areas of the Gran Chaco, and Brazil’s Mato Grosso. The text also mentions the natural disaster that has occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where floods have caused human losses and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
The specialists indicate that recovering from this immense impact will take several months, and that it is necessary to create recovery, prevention, and preparedness plans to reduce the impact of future disasters. According to the study, there has been an increase in soil water content and in the replenishment of watercourses and ponds in the La Plata Basin, which includes northern and central eastern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil.
However, intense rains and floods in southern Brazil have caused significant losses in agricultural production. In the Gran Chaco, including the Brazilian Pantanal, the projected temperature is expected to be slightly above normal and precipitation may be below average.
Therefore, an increase in the probability of mild to moderate droughts is expected. The report also reveals that in the Altiplano region, which includes the northern Andean area of Chile, eastern Bolivia, and southern Peru, the El Niño phenomenon is weakening, and there could be more abundant rainfall during the summer.
named defendant in the lawsuit document), speaking at a press conference at the Marriott Hotel on Thursday 30th May 2024, addressed a reporter’s question about a past media event for MSR Media hosted on St. Kitts in observance of the cordial mingling and wondered out loud to Dr.
Harris what went wrong. Dr. Harris asserted that he was not the one who invited MSR Media to St. Kitts for that event, and placed responsibility for the company’s presence in the Federation on Premier Brantley. “It was Mark Brantley who brought MSR Media to our country.
MSR Media started making movies, we are told, in Nevis,” Harris stated. “So the invitation was given. The invitation came from them. It was Mark Brantley who brought him to the country, who said that this thing was happening and it was a positive… and in hindsight it was bad to have relied on Mark’s judgement because you now see what was the nature of the man that was invited to come and to participate in our space.
So that is really what has happened. I never invited him.” According to Brantley, while speaking at this week’s press conference: “We could have been engaged in making our movies and it wouldn’t be no problem but because others had other interests, we now find ourselves in this type of situation.” “It would be for those who are involved to explain what their situation involvement was, and to defend these allegations that have been made against them, that have now gone viral around the world,” he also stated.
“I am just content that my name, and none of my ministers, and nobody in Nevis is involved in that,” Brantley, who is the leader of the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) expressed.
