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This document presents and analyses the main policies implemented by the APRA government to reactivate Peruvian agriculture, assessing their short and medium-term financial viability and their effects on the agricultural sector itself and on the economy as a whole.

It describes and analyses agricultural price policy, exchange rate policy and credit policy; it evaluates the effects of the macroeconomic policies described and of agricultural subsidies, especially those that affect inflation, the fiscal deficit and inter-sectoral terms of trade.