Abstract

CHIPANA MENDOZA, Gladys J. et al. Lupine (Lupinus mutabilis), and its social and economic importance on the families in the Bolivian Northern Altiplano. RIIARn [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.1, pp.49-57. ISSN 2409-1618.

Lupine, is cultivated in Bolivia in four departments, with an average yield of 637 kg / ha, and a total annual production of 1,208 MT in an area of 1,895 ha (ENA, 2008). Research conducted by Iturralde (2012) mention that in the community of Carabuco, municipality of Puerto Mayor Carabuco, the cultivated surface of lupine is 17.8 ha, representing 21 % of total cultivated area with an average yield of 1,718 kg / ha. The market for its commercialization is located in the communities of Escoma and Korahuasi. The objective of this study is to evaluate the importance of lupine in families in the municipality of Puerto Mayor Carabuco in the Bolivian Northern Altiplano, from the point of view of production, marketing and consumption. To achieve this purpose, participatory workshops were developed, 105 surveys to farmers were conducted in 22 communities in the municipality, and there was a following up of traded prices and quantities of lupine, during three years and three months. The data processing was performed with Stata 12.0 statistical program; prices were also deflated in orderto obtain real prices. The following are among the main results: during the farm cultivation years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, 25% of the farmers planted lupine with differentiated marketing prices forgrain, between good and bad quality. Lupine consumption in the region is very low and the crop is important, because farmers can store grain for long periods of time between one to two years, offering it mainly at local fairs when they have a financial need, orwhen intermediaries assign higher prices for buying this product.

Keywords : Lupine; Northern Altiplano; Marketing; Production; Consumption.

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