Pine mortality in Corrientes
A technical summary of the impact on forest production and crop recommendations in the face of drought, which has been going on for almost 3 years, was recently presented, and contains the main preliminary results, hypotheses and suggestions provided by the different Working Groups, where INTA participated, with other institutions and producers involved in the mentioned problem. “With technological tools, it was possible to determine a total of 10,543 hectares (82.8% in Pinus spp.; 15.8% Eucalyptus spp. and 1.4% other species) strongly affected, and another 24,202 hectares with a lesser degree of affectation in different areas of the province”, indicates the report. More information doing click here . Source: Inta forestry program – Argentina Forestry
In this sense, the INTA Concordia Agrometeorological station has the following balance where the drought in November that continued to decline in December is noted
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