Government of Bolivia inaugurates a plant to industrialize quinoa

EFE / La Paz The national authorities launched this Wednesday a plant to industrialize quinoa, which required an investment equivalent to about 7.9 million dollars. The industry was located in an area of 8,800 square meters in the municipality of Soracachi, in the Oruro region. President Luis Arce inaugurated the work with the goal that it be the first step to achieve "the full industrialization of quinoa." The plant will produce foods such as quinoa flakes and flour, but the government wants the saponin, a component with cleaning qualities that the grain contains, to also be used to make detergents. "We have to produce products with higher added value because look at what has happened, from Bolivia we have promoted the consumption of quinoa to the entire world and we are the country that has benefited the least," lamented Arce. You can also read: Chinese company will build an energy plant in Santa Cruz The government official assured quinoa producers that the Executive will be in ...