Peru's farming GDP may have increased between 2% and 2.5% last October, Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Jose Manuel Hernandez projected Thursday.
Such expansion may be explained by the good performance of livestock subsector and agro-exports.
"The livestock subsector has been growing and the
agro-exports, too," Hernandez expressed.
In this sense, the cabinet member estimated
farming GDP will close the year with a growth rate ranging between 2.8% and 3%.
Likewise, Hernandez forecasted farming GDP will expand above 3% in 2018.
"The fact that there will be no
El Niño phenomenon, rains or floods will contribute to this expansion […]," he concluded.
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