The president of the Citrus Federation in Entre Ríos, Argentina, Elbio Calgaro, pointed out that "the situation is getting worse" and highlighted that "it is like burn injuries; only with time can you realise the extent of the damage."
In this context, the president of the Citrus Federation in Entre Ríos, Elbio Calgaro, pointed out that "the situation is getting worse" and highlighted that "it is like burn injuries; only time will reveal the extent of the damage."
Calgaro, who chaired a citrus growers meeting yesterday, underlined that "the situation is very complex" and called "for a national emergency to be declared."
Additionally, he highlighted that the state of emergency in the citrus sector was already declared at provincial level and pointed out that "it will be in place until December 2013."
"The associations are handing in sworn declaration forms of the affidavit to be taken to the province's Department of Production, where they will be analysed and certificates will be issued for every producer," he explained. Complications in the sector, according to Calgaro, "have negatively affected the domestic fruit market as a whole."
In this sense, he explained to the diary Río Uruguay that it feels like "having planned work for the entire year only for things to change in a matter of days." Then he said that "one must rebuild what was left, assess the amount of work expected and determine how many people can be employed. It is a delicate matter."
"At the moment we are trying to recover the fruit that was already ripe and did not burn. What could be consumed and taken to factories was taken," he added.
Source: Laprensa