Peru
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's gross domestic product in the late 1980s was $19.6 billion, or
about $920 per capita. Although the economy remains primarily agricultural, the
mining and fishing industries have become increasingly important. relies
primarily on the export of raw materials—chiefly minerals, farm products, and ....
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.... farms in
Peru are very small and are used to produce subsistence crops; the country also
has large cooperative farms. The chief agricultural products, together with the
approximate annual yield (in metric tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2
million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton
(280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading
grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined.
The livestock population include ....
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