Use of natural fertilizers and biocides in Aymara peasant agriculture in Puno (Peru)

Apaza-Ticona J.; Alanoca-Arocutipa V.; Inquilla-Mamani J.; Flores-Mamani E. · Anales de Geografia de la Universidad Complutense (2023) · DOI: 10.5209/aguc.90576

Resumen

The research deals with the use of natural composts and biocides in Aymara peasant agriculture in the province of El Collao Ilave-Puno, currently the peasant families in their daily work carry out ancestral practices to guarantee agricultural production and control plague such as infestation of _____________ the weevil of The Andes. The objective is to explore and describe the traditional practices of use of composts. The procedure used was the ethnographic and interpretive method, the techniques selected are: interview, participant observation and performance, which facilitated the collection of information. As a conclusion of this research, the survival of the peasant knowledge of the application of natural fertilizers and biocides based on natural plants, minerals and human urine is exposed, and they are practiced in their different agricultural processes in order to ensure production, control plague and diseases of the different cultivation plots.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano