Agricultural and livestock production fell 7.53% in April 2025

In April 2025, national agricultural production registered a 7.53% drop compared to the same month of the previous year, mainly due to the decline in the agricultural subsector, which decreased by 11.49%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). The contraction of the agricultural sector was due to lower production volumes of crops such as: raw cotton (-46.3%), paddy rice (-43.9%), quinoa (-23.7%), asparagus (-23.7%), hard yellow corn (-14.6%), potato (-13.2%), and choclo corn (-12.2%). This situation was due to delays or reductions in planting, caused by water scarcity in the northern coast and low precipitation levels in the south, by the end of 2024. In contrast, the livestock subsector grew 2.60%, ...