date:Mar 11, 2013
oward planting barley, which is not subject to the curbs. While Argentine barley cultivation is soaring, the wheat crop is forecast at 9.4 million tonnes this season - way under the 2011/12 crop year's 14.1 million tonnes.
Domestic Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno, feared by business as chief enforcer of the government's frequent market interventions, told exporters this week that further growth in barley farming at the expense of wheat would not be tolerated.
He said that if farmers keep g