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LATIMES / T. Wilkinson /
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In far southern Peru, the city of Ica provides the USA with fresh asparagus and grapes.
The unemployment rate there is near zero.
Consumerism is booming.
But the benefits from a prosperous ag. sector have not solved all the area's ills.
Disease has increased and education has declined as the number of jobs has grown.
Many professionals work in packing plants and those of high-school-age "go to the asparagus" (work the fields) instead of studying.
