Peru Agriculture Ministry launches $10 million coffee plantation restoration project

Peru has launched an ambitious $10 million coffee plantation restoration and renewal project to span over the next four years, according to Agriculture minister Carlos Leyton. The project aims to make credit readily available to the more than 110,000 coffee growers in Peru, currently farming 370,000 hectares in the cloud forests in the central and [...]

Peru Agriculture Ministry to extract freshwater from fog for irrigation

Peru’s Agriculture Ministry will install 100 “fog catchers” along Lima’s coast to extract freshwater from fog and use it for irrigation purposes, reported daily Peru21. Because of unreliable and low rainfall, Peru’s coastal agricultural boom is completely reliant during the dry season on woefully inadequate irrigation infrastructure that draws water from increasingly hard-to-reach aquifers, and [...]

Peru Environment Ministry recommends setting limit for highly valued mahogany wood exports

A strict limit of 562 to 851 should be set on the number of mahogany trees allowed to be cut down annually for export, recommended Peru’s Environment Ministry in a recently published report. The report issued by Peru’s fledgling Environment Ministry urges the Agriculture Ministry to set a National Mahogany Exportation Quota for 2009. In [...]

Agriculture Minister: Peru’s agro export industry to be hard hit in 2009

Peru’s Agriculture Minister, Carlos Leyton, expects the Andean country’s agro export industry to suffer the effects of the global financial crisis, especially during the second half of 2009, daily El Comercio reported Monday. “The whole agro export industry will suffer a sort of reduction in terms of the speed in which we were advancing,” said [...]

Planting trees to mitigate climate change: Peru to plant 40 million in 2009

In an attempt to mitigate climate change, the Ministry of Agriculture has launched a nationwide tree-planting project with the astounding goal to plant 40 million trees by Feb. 20 to capture more than 570,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, El Comercio reported Friday. “This project was programmed many months ago,” said architect Rodolfo Beltran, [...]