INDAP presents Camelido Plan to support ancestral livestock farming in the northern macrozone of Chile

INDAP presented the new Camelido Plan that will allow 70 ranchers from the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá and Antofagasta to access resources to enhance their ventures. The instrument, whose initial budget for the current year is $163 million, in a first stage, will provide training and specialized technical advice in the management of camelids and the application for resources for investments associated with the development of productive projects. One of the central objectives of the plan is to encourage the increase in camelid livestock with practices and management that reduce animal deaths; and improve reproductive conditions and related activities. Additionally, studies of the value chain will be developed and how to incorporate these results into the permanent work of ranchers. Santiago Rojas, national director of INDAP, highlighted the importance of the Aymara communities that both in Colchane and in other territories “are making their homeland through camelid ...