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The article highlights the ongoing crisis in Peruvian cotton cultivation, with the agricultural area dedicated to cotton at its lowest point in decades, having fallen from 170,785 hectares in the late 1980s to just 14,000 hectares today. This decline is attributed to various factors, including changes in the economic model, free trade agreements, institutional support withdrawal, lack of innovation, and the impact of the trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these challenges, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Brazilian Cooperation, and the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) remain optimistic, citing the profitability of cotton and the potential for its cultivation to be expanded, especially in replacing rice cultivation in Piura and Lambayeque regions. They plan to boost cotton cultivation through the More Cotton Project, emphasizing the importance of technical assistance and the correct technological approach to improve profitability and sustainability.
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Original content
Peruvian cotton has survived multiple adverse factors over time that plunged it into a constant crisis. However, in agony there is hope. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Brazilian Cooperation and the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), through the More Cotton Project, consider that cotton cultivation is still a profitable activity, although it is necessary to take measures to strengthen it. In recent decades, due to the change in the economic model, the FTA with the US, the institutional breakdown of support for national production, the lack of relevant technological innovations and, lately, the trade war and the low profitability of cultivation by the global collapse of prices and consequent abandonment of the farms, the national cotton area has been reduced to its minimum expression: Once 170,785 hectares (1988-89) and currently 14,000 hectares, according to the agricultural engineer Gonzalo Tejada López, consultant to ...
Source: PEagronoticias
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