From Salta, the leader Lucas Norris insists that one must not be dazzled by the "specialties" and that it is necessary

A few years ago, only a few visionaries spoke about planting chia, sesame, beans, and other "specialties" in the north. Several campaigns with good prices turned them into a good investment option, and their popularity had the opposite effect: Overproduction greatly complicated producers' profitability. This is the latent risk of crops with inelastic demand, that is, whose consumption hardly varies from year to year. If the market always absorbs the same amount, when supply increases, the price collapses. That is why Lucas Norris, a rural expert who has long presided over the Federation of Rural Entities of Salta (Federsal), insists that the province should not neglect productive balance and remembers that "specialties" can be a double-edged sword. "If the producer has it as the main crop with which to pay their bills, it will be complicated," he noted in a dialogue with Bichos de Campo. This happened with chia after 2012, which was paid 8,000 dollars per ton and collapsed below ...