Blueberry farms were hit by a storm of hail that hit the region.
National Deputy Bernard Biella (UCR – Salta) presented a project that asks the National Executive to arrange activation Agricultural Emergency Law 26,509 according to the Department of Metan Salta Province, due to the destruction of the blueberry plantations caused by hail, also seeks to contemplate the implementation of financial compensation for the harvesters that instances of this situation lost their jobs.
“The storm of hail that hit Metán Department of Salta wiping out about upcoming tons of blueberries to harvest. Three minutes of hail enough to destroy an entire harvest season promising 2014. Due to losses total it suffered on their plantations, the company Extraberries SA, was forced to terminate abruptly in the campaign that began on 1 September and that auspiciously last until the end of November, “he said.
Biella added that as a result of this inevitable decision by the company, more than three thousand (3,000) growers lost their source of income. Losses caused the weather event were complete and only need about seven hundred (700) workers to perform pruning and preparing for the 2015 planting season.
“The Department of Metan since 2008 began to excel in the international market by exporting fruits blueberries, a thin fruit farming difficult and limited marketing to overseas market. This activity, held annually in the historic area of Yatasto between the months of September and November to three thousand people to work in harvesting and packaging the famous “Blue Gold.” Growers neighboring cities of San Jose de Metan, Rosario de la Frontera, the Warehouse, Rio Piedras and other locations inside of Salta and neighboring provinces, contributing their labor in one of the main economic activities in the region, receiving in return his daily economic livelihood now lost abruptly for reasons that go beyond human decisions, “said .
Biella remarked: “We present this project in order to address two edges of the same problem: on one hand the activation of the emergency contemplated by law 26,509 considering implementing procedures that statement when the needs of the affected farmers, their employees and their families are pressing, and other immediate financial assistance, through the relief deemed appropriate, the harvesters of these plantations have lost suddenly and unexpectedly their jobs as representatives requested that question and solution both workers and producers”.