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July 5, 2019
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Health food staple quinoa may get pricier as Peru eyes China
Officials from China and Peru have signed a customs agreement allowing imports of quinoa from Peru for the first time ever, and a former Peruvian minister of production expects that Asia will soon become the biggest market for the grain. However, large-scale production of the grain on Peru’s coast has been hindered by “delays to new irrigation products and uncertainty about the future of a special labor and tax regime for agribusiness that expires in 2021." Read more at Bloomberg …