Making the desert bloom
- From: Vol 9, Issue 4 (April 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country:
The Peruvian government is assessing a bill to encourage investors to farm desert land along the country’s coastal strip using desalinated seawater.
Peru’s 2,000 km coastline counts as one of the world’s driest deserts, sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, and interrupted occasionally by rivers fuelled by rains and melting snows from the Andes. In the coastal valleys, farmers use the rivers to irrigate vineyards, fields of cotton, sugarcane, rice and asparagus, as well as orchards ...
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