40% of food production in Peru is lost due to pests and diseases

40% of food production in Peru is lost every year due to the impact of pests and diseases, putting food security at risk and affecting thousands of families that depend on agriculture. Faced with this problem, the executive director of Cultivida, Rubén Carrasco, said that crops essential to the national economy and daily consumption, such as bananas, coffee, potatoes, rice, fruit trees and vegetables, are severely affected by the proliferation of pests such as Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (which devastates banana plantations), Coffee rust (which affects coffee production), as well as various diseases and pests that threaten key crops such as potatoes, rice and vegetables. These losses directly impact the economy of rural families and limit the population's access to basic products, raising prices in the markets and complicating the stability of the agri-food chain. Water shortage and illegal agrochemicals aggravate the crisisRubén Carrasco said that climate change is also intensifying ...