The previous agricultural campaign (2022-2023), as was foreseeable, was complicated; However, in his last months showed signs of recovery. Thus, until June of this year, around 1,891,427 hectares of the main transitory crops were planted nationwide, which meant a drop of close to 43,700 hectares or -2.3% in relation to the area planted in the […]
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British Virgin Islands “seriously” considering Guyana’s offer for agricultural field
The Government of the British Virgin Islands reported this Saturday that it “seriously” considers accepting an offer from guyana to use their land for the industry agriculture. “Certainly it is something that we must discuss,” said the deputy minister of Agriculture of the Caribbean territory, Karl Dawson, after meeting recently with officials of guyana and […]
Brazil: Agriculture has untapped potential for large-scale biogas
Brazilian agribusiness has enormous untapped potential for development projects. biogas on a large scale, with a variety of opportunities to monetize the renewable fuel through use in their own operations or sale to third parties, industry executives said Thursday. In an event organized by BTG Pactual, the executive director of the Urca Energia group, Marcel […]
Food prices will moderate in the coming months
Food prices have played a determining role in the behavior of inflation in recent months, remaining in double-digit values. In the past month, the annual inflation rate for food and beverages reached 10.31%, almost double the general inflation rate that stood at 5.88% in Metropolitan Lima. Despite this, it was lower than the 12.89% registered […]
Potato production would decrease by more than 481,000 tons this year
The agricultural sector, after having overcome the fertilizer crisis, finds itself in an even more challenging scenario due to the imminent arrival of the El Niño phenomenon. Despite the optimism of farmers who anticipate a 6.5% increase in their crops this agricultural season, some crops could experience a significant reduction in production, according to the […]
Latin America has the potential to boost liquid biofuels, say experts
Latin America has the potential to drive the biofuels liquids for its vast agricultural production and that there is also a commitment in the region to move in that direction, informed this Wednesday the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and experts. IICA indicated in a press release that there is a great commitment […]
ILO: labor informality in the Peruvian agricultural sector exceeds 90%
The labor informality in Peru inside of the agricultural sector exceeds 90% and the advance of formal employment in Peru during the last 12 years for this activity has been barely 9.5%, he commented Luis Gonzalez, employment specialist for the Andean Countries Office of the ILO. This occurred during the development of the first day […]
Agricultural sector collapses and its GDP falls by 20% due to the climate crisis
The agricultural sector continues to deal with the devastating consequences of the crisis that it went through during the second half of 2022 and the first months of this year, due to climatic phenomena such as extreme droughts and irregular rainfall. These weather events have caused an unprecedented collapse in this subsector, evidenced by the […]
Droughts and floods cost Peru up to US$13.4 billion a year, according to the World Bank
Droughts, floods and landslides associated with heavy rains, water pollution and lack of access to safe water and sanitation cost Peru between $8.4 billion and $13.4 billion a yearAccording to a recent study by the World Bank (WB). Climate change will further reduce the availability of water, and will threaten the country’s economic growth, development […]
FAO: agricultural production in Latin America will grow 12% in the next decade among challenges
The agricultural production and fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean will increase by 12% in the next decade but at a rate “Slower” than the past and among challenges such as the volatility of world trade, as predicted today in a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). “Agricultural […]