While Peru remains a mainstay in products such as asparagus and fishmeal, areas like coffee and organic produce are where new growth is likely to come from. Agricultural exports increased by more than $800m to reach $4.8bn in 2011, with the US being the top destination. Peruvian coffee in particular is gaining an international reputation for quality, especially in new markets, and organics are a...
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Chapter | Agriculture from The Report: Peru 2012
Located on Africa’s western coast, Ghana is home to 24m people and a variety of ethnic groups. The country is divided into 10 administrative regions and has a strong executive branch, a unicameral legislature made up of 230 members, and an independent judiciary.
Chapter | Agriculture from The Report: Ghana 2012
As the country’s largest employer, the agriculture sector accounts for 28.3% of GDP and produces cereals, grains, fruits, vegetables, shea nuts, starchy staple crops and cotton, among other plants. Cultivated in six of the country’s 10 regions, cocoa is Ghana’s top agricultural export, rising to a value of $1.42bn in 2009. Indeed, having produced a record 1m tonnes in 2011, Ghana is the world’s...
Chapter | Agriculture from The Report: Thailand 2012
With one in every three Thais making their living in the sector, agriculture is key to the country’s social makeup, even if its importance to the formal economy has diminished. The growth of industry has helped transform agriculture, and agro-manufacturing exports like processed sugars and cereals, and canned fish and fruit are multibillion dollar industries. Rice is the traditional staple, but a...
Located in the heart of South-east Asia, Thailand combines an ancient Buddhist culture with an emerging industrial economy. It is the only South-east Asian country never to have been colonised, and the monarchy dates back to the 14th century.
The largest of the Pacific Island nations, Papua New Guinea (PNG) occupies the eastern half of New Guinea and hundreds of nearby islands. A mountainous and forested terrain has led to astonishing cultural and linguistic diversity, even as it inhibited development.