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Rising global demand for tequila has turned the trade of the drink into a multibillion-dollar industry, but its production from the blue agave plant in its eponymous Mexican region remains rooted in centuries-old methods of farming using hand tools and packs of mules. And while rising demand internationally means more agave plantations, the at times decade long maturing period before harvest and distillation for the agave means that production will at least in the near future still fall short of global demand.