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Satellite Audit Puts Buenos Aires Farm Loss at 5.8 Million Hectares, US$2 Billion Risk

CARBAP sets a 2030 deadline for finishing the Salado Master Plan after condemning scant 2026 funding.

Overview

  • New satellite images from November 11–13 show about 2 million hectares under water and roughly 3.8 million more too saturated or inaccessible to sow.
  • With soybean and corn planting windows closing, CARBAP warns that over 1.5 million hectares are very likely to remain unplanted this season.
  • The hardest‑hit districts include Bolívar, 9 de Julio, Pehuajó, 25 de Mayo, Lincoln, Carlos Casares and Las Flores, concentrating more than 4.5 million affected hectares, of which over 1.1 million are submerged.
  • CARBAP assigns responsibility to municipal, provincial and national authorities for unfinished hydraulic works and chronic rural‑road failures, noting the Salado plan is only a little over halfway complete.
  • The group criticizes budget gaps, citing a 2026 provincial outlay of just over US$4 million for the Salado plan and no national allocation despite the Fondo Hídrico, projecting losses that would hit contractors, transporters, local businesses and tax revenues.