Lima, Peru | Saturday 10 May 2008 16:01 |
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Local farmers and international potato scientists exchanged views today as they met in the Cusco Potato Park, located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The visit was an important part of the conference that is took place in Cusco, entitled: "Potato Science for the Poor: Challenges for the New Millennium".
(LIP-ir) -- Over 90 world leaders came together in Cusco, Peru for one of the United Nation's main events for the International Year of the Potato.
(LIP-ir) -- Thanks to a socioeconomic project being carried out in a northern province of Ayacucho, a region located in the south-central Andes, over 92,000 cuyes (guinea pigs) will be produced this year, said FONOCODES, a fund that fosters social development.
(LIP-ir) -- Even though Peru has 2,800 of the 3,900 varieties of potatoes that exist in the world today, the country's per capita consumption of the tuber is only 77 kilograms (170 pounds) per year.
(LIP-ir) -- Peru will continue respecting the traditional use of the coca leaf, said Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs after the United Nation's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) issued a recommendation Wednesday to Peruvian and Bolivian governments to make all uses of the coca leaf a criminal offense.
(LIP-ir) -- After two days of violent protests in which hundreds were detained and several killed, unions representing farmers in Peru announced Tuesday night that strikes and protests would end.
(LIP-ir) -- Approximately 400 tourists traveling to Machu Picchu were unable to reach the Inca Citadel because train tracks were blocked this morning by farmers taking part in an agriculture protest / strike, reported PeruRail, the company that provides visitors with transportation from Cusco to Machu Picchu.
(LIP-ir) -- Hundreds of inter-provincial buses were stranded in different parts of the country when farmers and representatives of Peru's agricultural industry blocked several parts of the Panamericana Norte Highway from Huacho - approximately 80 miles north of Lima - to Piura, about 652 miles north of the country's capital city.
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