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Pandemic pushes Peru's vital peasant farmers to the brink

by Franklin Briceno
| November 30, 2020 12:03 AM

PISAC, Peru (AP) — Under a punishing Andean sun, Nazario Quispe digs his plow into the soil where he is growing dozens of different potato varieties — uncertain when he will be able to afford the seeds and supplies to sow them again.

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