Bolivian quinoa producers and President Luis Arce introduced this Monday the VIII World Quinoa Congress 2023, aspiring to innovate in manufacturing and get better the place of the primary exporter of these cereals on the earth.
“We are launching the VIII World Quinoa Congress from March 28 to 31, 2023.”
“Quinoa is an ancient crop of the Andes, between Bolivia and Peru, which adapted to adverse climatic conditions and fed for more than 7,000 years to ancient civilizations such as the Incas,” he defined in his speech.
Quinoa is a cereal native to the Andes of South America and is essentially the most full meals in nutritional vitamins and amino acids for human vitamin, based on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The president known as on teachers from different nations, producers, and researchers to contribute to enhancing quinoa manufacturing and industrialization in Bolivia.
“We hope that from this congress can come out important ideas to accelerate industrialization,” he stated.
At the announcement ceremony of the worldwide occasion have been representatives of cooperation companies from Japan, Korea, and Switzerland, amongst others, and organizations corresponding to FAO and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture IICA.
Bolivia was consolidated in 2013 as the primary exporter of quinoa on the earth, with 35,000 tons for a price of 153 million {dollars}. In 2014, it dropped to 30,000 tons for 197 million {dollars}, based on information from the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE).
The worth per ton of quinoa in 2014 reached US$6,602 after which fell to US$2,000 in 2021.
In the primary 4 months of 2022, simply 7,729 tons have been exported for a price of US$16 million, registering a drop in worth of 21% and a quantity of 15%, in comparison with the identical interval in 2021, based on IBCE figures.