Peru
Peru is now the world’s largest exporter of table grapes and of blueberries. Almost all of it grows in one of the driest places on earth. The coastal strip between the Andes and the Pacific gets close to no rain at all. Ica, La Libertad, Piura and Lambayeque...
Peru
In most of the world, asparagus rests because winter arrives. In Peru it rests because the grower turns off the water. On the desert coast there is no cold season to send the crop into dormancy, so growers create one. They stop irrigating, the fern dries down, the...
Peru
Peruvian blueberries don’t grow in soil. They grow in pots filled with coconut coir, drip-irrigated several times a day, with every nutrient delivered through the fertigation tank. The entire industry is built on this substrate-based production system, and...
