With information from Fiorella Alvarado / URPI-LR According to the latest report on poultry marketing and prices, published today by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), the average price per kilo of chicken in retail markets was around S/10.47 last week. However, the sale of chicken decreased today to S/10 per kilo in […]
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Potato production in Peru will be industrialized to promote its export
The Executive Branch made official Law 31920, which promotes the potato industrializationwith the aim of promoting the agro-industrial activity of this tuber and stimulating the supply of its derivatives in different markets and exports. The law, published this Wednesday, November 8 in El Peruano, details that the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) will […]
Potato planting started the campaign in negative and fell more than 10% in August
The potato planting The 2023-2024 agricultural campaign began in negative, Well, in August, 22,979 hectares of crops were registered. This area is 16.0% smaller compared to the average sowing of the last 5 campaigns (27,357 hectares) and, if compared to the 2022-2023 campaign, it maintains a drop in sown areas of 10.3%, according to data […]
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 […]
Food shortage in Puno due to drought: a problem that farmers show to the Government
The farmers in the region Fist they continue to depend on the will of nature. In the years that it rains, they can get good productionand, if not, they spend a period of food shortage. The Republic arrived this Tuesday, June 20, at the town of Marca Esqueña, Culta sector, middle area of the district […]
Potato exports exceeded US$542,000 in the first quarter of 2023
This May 30th is celebrated the National Potato Day, whose objective is to reinforce the identity of this tuber by showing that it is 100% Peruvian and that it had its origins in the Andes, becoming throughout history an important source of food throughout the world. In that sense, The export of this food in […]
National Potato Day will be celebrated with a 17% drop in production
After rice, the potato is the main Peruvian crop. Only last year, this tuber represented around 10.4% of the Gross Value of Agricultural Production (VBP) with S/5,525 million, as reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (midagri). It is also the livelihood of 711,313 families distributed in 19 regions of the country. The […]
There will be little potato and quinoa due to lack of rain, so their price will increase
With information from Liubomir Fernández/URPI-LRThe quinoa and dadtwo of the foods most consumed by Peruvians, will see an increase in their pricedue to the scarcity of these products caused by the absence of rain in Fist. Milthon Pérez Smith, regional agricultural director of the highland region, pointed out that there was a low production of […]
In the middle of the agricultural season, sowings in 19 regions fell by almost 57%
Tumbes and Cajamarca are the ones that register the greatest setback. While the cultivation area of the main foods falls by up to 26%. Reduction in harvest level would reach 30% in the first half of this year. Planting of the main transitory crops fell by almost 57% in 19 regions of the country between […]
They project that the agricultural harvest will fall 23% in the first half of 2023
The food supply would be reduced between the months of April and June, which would ultimately continue to deteriorate the food security of Peruvians, warns Eduardo Zegarra. The ongoing agricultural campaign, which began in August 2022 and will run until July 2023, has been strongly affected by the severe drought that hit the mountains with […]