WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 – U.S. and Peruvian officials held a briefing at USDA headquarters in Washington today to highlight recent agreements that will boost agricultural trade between the two ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire ...

LIMA, PERU - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced March 14 that the U.S. government has reached agreement with the government of Peru to remove ...

Increased investment and the expansion of irrigated land along the Peruvian coast has ensured the continued development of large-scale industrial agriculture in Peru for more than two decades. After ...

LIMA – Peru’s government is preparing measures to jumpstart growth in key sectors like mining and agriculture amid a recession, Economy Minister Alex Contreras said on Monday. “We are going to ...

The strength of domestic agriculture relies on crop diversity, a harvest season that is the inverse of the northern hemisphere’s, and the fertile and well-irrigated coastal regions. As agricultural ...

Chancay port has enabled transportation times and costs to be greatly reduced, giving a strong boost to Peru-China agricultural trade and future potential, said Angel Manero Campos, Peru's Minister of ...

Lima, 20 Mar The Government of Peru declared the country's agricultural sector an emergency for 120 days with the aim of promoting actions to strengthen the so-called “second agrarian reform”, ...

Hand-held drones are used to map ancient civilizations and monitor crops LIMA, Peru – Drones are most often associated with assassinations in remote regions of Pakistan and Yemen but in Peru, unmanned ...

Chances are, vodka is more likely to conjure images of snowbound Russians than farmers high in the Peruvian Andes. But the potato only became a cheap, abundant raw material for vodka production after ...