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Assessment
of IAF Financial Support for
Concertación
interinstitucional para el control integrado de plagas y enfermedades en
los principales cultivos de las provincias de Calca-Urubamba
This project focused on a
very urgent need of the local producers, i.e. the increasing incidence of
plagues that were compromising the production and harvest of corn and
potatoes, as well as endangering the producers´ livelihoods: “The Arariwa Project
(PE-474) was aimed at reducing plagues and diseases afflicting the main
crops in the Calca and Urubamba provinces in the Cusco Region. It
was designed to guarantee adequate agricultural production by controlling
the risks of environmental contamination and by stimulating the local
population and institutions in the region to work together in an
integrated and cooperative manner. The project had three
main objectives: to increase the number of farmers that adopt Integrated
Pest Control[1] (IPC) practices for key regional crops (corn and potatoes);
to augment and develop IPC technology suitable for the existing
agricultural systems within the project area; and to improve the
deployment of permanent pest and disease control programs pertinent to
local farming. The project was geared to assist 900 producers in 24
communities in both provinces.”
[1] Manejo Integrado de
Pragas (MIP).
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