Bolivia: Agricultural production and quinoa fall

as well as foreign exchange earnings from exports. However, while these "optimistic" versions say one thing, the national agrarian reality reveals pessimistic data that deny the official assertions. Indeed, according to official data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), analyzed by the Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE ), in the past 2021 several important items of agricultural production had a considerable drop, which generally determined the fall of the volume produced, as well as the income provided by some exports. Therefore, GDP growth does not have the pretty colors with which it is painted. The collapse of agricultural production was registered in the items of quinoa, cocoa, heart of palm, beans, corn, banana, wood and others, but especially of the quinoa that was being exported and becoming a source of foreign exchange for the national economy. In this regard, in 2020 the country exported 37.7 million kilos of quinoa worth 92.4 million dollars; but in 2021, that ...