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Why Your Margarita Is an Agricultural Time Bomb

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Tequila production rests on a single cloned variety of blue agave, and that genetic uniformity is now a structural risk to the industry. The plant, Agave tequilana Weber Azul, needs roughly seven to fourteen years to mature before its…

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