Potato production in Peru will be industrialized to promote its export

Productive diversification. The Government publishes a legal device that promotes public or private financing programs to generate the industrialization of this tuber, whose production volume reached 6 million metric tons and provided work for 711,313 families in 2022. The Executive Branch made official Law 31920, which promotes the industrialization of the potato, with the aim of promoting the agro-industrial activity of this tuber and stimulating the supply of its derivatives in different markets and exports. The law, published this Wednesday, November 8 in El Peruano, details that the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) will promote technical assistance to potato producers in activities related to "improving the quality of production, modernization, transformation processes and, above all, in the identification of markets and financing alternatives". "These activities are carried out through their programs, projects or general directorates, as ...