Peru: Andean potato farmers have brought back a 2,000-year-old crop system

The AgroXXI.ru portal has read an article by AFP journalists, the authors of which Juan Carlos Cisneros and Carlos Mandujano remind that the agricultural history of each country has its own important lessons, and they should be learned on the path to a sustainable future of food production: “What looks like from the sky how huge circular patterns created by aliens are actually an ancient agricultural practice revived by farmers to combat the climate crisis on the Andean plateau of Puno. On the border of Peru and Bolivia, the waru-waru system (the indigenous Quechua word for ridge) is once again protecting potato and quinoa crops as it did 2,000 years ago. "This agricultural system allows us to withstand climate change, with more frequent rains and floods, droughts and frosts," farmer Cesar Cutipa, 42, told AFP. The Puno plateau is located on Lake Titicaca at an altitude of about 3812 meters above sea level. Farmers have recreated six waru-waru in flood-prone fields. The furrows ...