Flooding hits another regional economy: Northern Santa Fe beekeeping enters a critical stage due to the camps.

While much of northern Santa Fe is still trying to absorb the impact of the extraordinary rainfall of recent weeks, another strategic production of the interior is beginning to feel the consequences of the water excesses strongly. This time the problem affects beekeeping, an activity often relegated within the agricultural map, but key to the regional economy and for the environmental sustainability of vast productive areas. In departments of northern Santa Fe, especially in areas such as Malabrigo, Villa Minetti, Reconquista, Tostado, and part of the border with Santiago del Estero, beekeepers face a difficulty that can be as serious as the direct loss of hives, which is the impossibility of reaching the apiaries to carry out essential tasks at a sensitive moment of the production cycle. According to a press release from the Cosar cooperative, located near Sauce Viejo, the accumulated precipitation during April left rural roads underwater, completely flooded lots, and sectors ...