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Isabel Guerra

Peru has become the number one exporter of asparagus in the world, and the number two producer after China, and now our country is hosting the XII International Symposium of Asparagus, the most important event for scientist and businessmen working withe Asparagus.

The Symposium, which takes place every four years, will last until November 2nd, and is gathering 60 experts from 21 nationalities to Chavimochic (La Libertad), who traveled there to see how asparagus are growing.

The visitors were amazed to see how Peruvians are able to cultivate asparagus so successfully in a desert environment.

“I'm very impressed for the quantity and the quality of the production, and about the way you are fighting the plagues biologically. And the product is very good. We have a lot to learn from Peru,” said Jos Vermaegm, researcher from Bejo Zaden B.V. (Netherlands).

The Symposium is taking place at the Agrarian University in La Molina (Lima), and is being promoted by the International Society of Horticultural Sciences, which has more than 7,000 affiliates from 150 countries.

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