date:Jan 22, 2013
reduction in planting area, the exchange said. Yields were also affected by excessive rains.
The ministry kept its soybean area estimate unchanged at 19.35 million hectares and corn estimate unchanged at 4.6 million hectares.
Argentina, the world's No. 3 exporter of soybeans and corn after the United States and Brazil, is expected to produce record harvests of both crops this season.
The government sees the soy harvest at 55 million tons or more and it expects a corn haul of 28 million to 30