La Pampa in Argentina is so rich in nutrients to produce millions of tons of food, but also to attract parrots and pigeons, to eat part harvest, became a headache for farmers. The problem occurs in one of the leading world exporters of grain, flour and oil, where producers now fear not only the weather or prices, but must watch helplessly as the flocks of birds down their lots and shelled sunflower plants and corn.
"The problem is very large, mainly in the province of Buenos Aires. The flocks are getting larger and the plague is spreading increasingly. Where already installed, each year is more severe," he told Reuters Javier Dominguez, a farmer in the region of Luján, 70 km west of the capital of Argentina. Buenos Aires is the main agricultural region of the country but due to the voracity of small animals in some areas of sunflower, corn or sorghum comes to suffer a cut of 50 percent in productivity. The scourge spreads other regions: in his last weekly crop report, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Grain Exchange in Buenos Aires warned of extensive agricultural losses generated by birds in the provinces of Entre Rios and Chaco, located east and north.
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