Pilot Farm Amazon: We are sympathetic to the daily problems that local farmers face. The majority of communities located around Puerto Maldonado are not farmers by tradition but primarily gold miners, rubber
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Pilot Farm Amazon: We are sympathetic to the daily problems that local farmers face. The majority of communities located around Puerto Maldonado are not farmers by tradition but primarily gold miners, rubber
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barons and Brazil nut collectors. Puerto Maldonado Amazon Pilot Farm was a boom town as little as twenty years ago but the people that flocked to Madre de Dios are not farmers by tradition and as such suffer trying to make the meager plots of land awarded to them by the government rentable.
The riches of the area soon dried up leaving the fortune-seekers high and dry without local knowledge and sufficient means to make them capable farmers. The concept of the pilot farm is to help the locals manage their land efficiently and hence reduce their impact on the surrounding forest. Hunting, fishing, timber extraction, charcoal burning and palm leaf collection are time-consuming and labour intensive
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activities which they would gladly rescind given the opportunity Amazon Pilot Farm.
Amazon Pilot Farm We are fortunate enough to be able to perform various experiments with crops and productivity that local farmers do not have the luxury of testing. We are now in a position whereby we have created a self-sufficient module for local
families. However, there is a problem. Various international charities have tried to work in the area before with
concepts designed to revolutionize the lifestyles of the local communities but having brought the locals around to
their way of thinking the money has always dried up and the participants have been left high and dry. This has resulted, and justifiably so, in general mistrust of people trying to help. We are now in a position to help the locals
without the need for an initial financial investment by the communities concerned. When people come to us for aid we know that they are receptive to our ideas and the passive approach we have adopted over recent years is finally
proving productive. Our combination of livestock management, tropical flower cultivation for sale and crop cycling is finally reaching the surrounding communities and many communities benefit from an improved standard of living
whilst impacting the forest around them less and less.
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The concept of the pilot farm is to help the locals manage their land efficiently and hence reduce their impact on the surrounding forest. Hunting, fishing, timber extraction, charcoal burning and palm leaf collection are time-
consuming and labour intensive activities which they would gladly rescind given the opportunity. We, at Taricaya, are fortunate enough to be able to perform various experiments with crops and productivity that local farmers do not
have the luxury of testing. We are now in a position at Taricaya where we have created a self-sufficient module for local families. With this model established we have been helping local communities in the management of their land.
The second phase is an agroforestry project designed to help farmers recover abandoned farm plots with timber and plants that will provide high income from lands already left fallow. The soil in such plots is infertile and cannot
support high density crops such as maize, rice and bananas. However with careful management and natural fertilisers they can be turned into productive wood plantations or fruit farms.