Chinese demand for the Andean crop is getting cash flowing to farmers, but suspicions of biopiracy are leading to calls to protect Peru’s natural resources The high plain stretches as far as the eye ...

Ament describes a Wild West scenario where maca farmers are approached with suitcases full of money, while giant sacks of maca are gleefully loaded into trucks. Law enforcement is absent from the ...

Maca, a nutritious and medicinal root cultivated in the Peruvian Andes, is currently the object of a trade fever, in which market prices have risen to stratospheric levels as a result of unprecedented ...

Maca root is a significant part of the Peruvian culture. It has been growing in the pristine altitudes of the Andes Mountains in Peru for over 2000 years and yet it is only now that the healing powers ...

There is a new food supplement available in Jamaica from Peru. Peruvian Maca root powder is a totally organic root vegetable that is rapidly gaining attention in North America and the world for its ...

Natural-products companies based in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere have steadily built a market for maca, a small turnip-like root that grows in high mountain areas, and that is believed to give a ...

Peru is a landscape that is proclaimed for being a source of diverse, high-quality foods. Maca, a root vegetable native to South America, has been grown and cultivated in the Andes mountains of Peru ...