The province of León has about 105,000 hectares of winter cerealscrops whose birth has been seen benefited for the rains in recent dayssince they were going through a drought situation after planting. The mild temperatures that have been recorded until now also contribute to this rapid birth and development of plants.
This was stated by Asaja through a statement in which they assured that The planting campaign has been “good, since there has been enough weather to carry out the different agronomic tasks of preparing the land”. Nevertheless, The lack of precipitation caused the most superficial layer of land if it had dried upsomething that “was making it difficult for the seed to germinate.
That is why the Precipitation during Sunday night and early Monday morningwith about 15 liters per square meter, They have considered “this problem solved”. Of the 105,000 hectares that León has, 25% is irrigated, however, also in autumn there are 13,000 hectares of dryland dedicated to vetches for grain or forage and about 6,500 hectares, also dryland, where rapeseed was planted.
fallow land
Besides, from ASAJA they claim to have confirmed that “dry farms that were usually used for cereal are no longer being planted”. A situation motivated by “the high production costs and low grain pricesand as a consequence of all this the low expectations of obtaining a profitability”.
It is farmswith a total area not yet determined, They will be left fallow or planted in spring with sunflowers.the latter crop which entails less investment and therefore less risk.
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