Articles tagged with: agriculture in Peru
Native Crops of Peru – Theobroma cacao
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Theobroma cacao is a tree fruit endemic to the South American rainforest and distributed to Central America by humans. It was domesticated about 3,000 years ago by local indigenous people …
Native Crops of Peru – Pure Nacional Cacao
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In 2007, Pure Nacional, a variety of the cacao tree was rediscovered in Peru, to the world’s chocolate makers it was a delight. In 1916 the plant was hit by …
Competitiveness of the Economy
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In the 1970s two military governments led by Juan Velazco Alvarado and Francisco Morales Bermudez nationalized a big portion of the economy making them inefficient and uncompetitive. A period of …