When you think about the activities of the forest people, the first thing that comes to mind is the fishing, forestry, hunting. However, in the course of this short paper we will show the importance of farming and how this could be the core activity in the problem of poverty in the jungle, which certainly is not resolved by privatizing certain areas of the jungle .
The relevance of farming in the boondocks is given by the geography of them. As shown by the Agricultural Census 1994, shows that there is a clear limitation on the extent of land devoted to agriculture. Of the total of extensions that exist in the Amazon region, only 1.57% were assessed as suitable for farming. Obviously correspond to the properties under title, but give us the idea of \u200b\u200blimitation that exists.
However, when we refer to observe the observed population is largely employed in the agricultural sector. The Ministry of Labor indicates that by the year 2005, the population employed in the agricultural sector amounted to 50.96% taking the extremes in the departments of Amazonas, in which the employed population that is in the agricultural sector is 68.1%, while the Mother of God is reached only at 30.67%.
This is because in principle a reason, and the principal, to consider farming as a major in the RAs. The populations of our RAs are involved in the production of rice, bananas, coffee, cassava, maize yellow, etc. In the Amazon, for example, which is the region with just over 70% of its territory considered wild, and has 70% of the population engages in agriculture producing rice, cassava, coffee, banana, beans, yellow corn, corn starch, soy, etc., that by 2006 production reached about 600 thousand tons of volume.
Now, if we also present information related to the production value of 10.765 million new soles at constant prices of 1994, 20.36% is the result of agricultural activity. That agricultural GDP is dispersed at the level of regions as follows:
If we project the participation of the population employed in different sectors to the total population, and if we divide the value of agricultural production among the population of families engaged in agriculture are going to see that we can estimate a GDP per capita agricultural. The total population holds ADRs amounted to 2,438,286 inhabitants in 2005, according to IX of Population and Housing IV. Of these, 16% were in Amazonas, Loreto 36.2%, 3.8% in Madre de Dios, San MartÃn 27.5% and 16.5% in Ucayali.
should be emphasized that what we show will be a very rough and therefore may have some objections. But help us pre visualize the problems of the populations of ADRs in relation to agriculture.
We can see a GDP per capita well below the average for the national. This is the expression of an economic system with abandon as I said Mariátegui, Indian and earth. The RAs show a degree of economic backwardness, which will not be solved by privatizing the jungle. Nearly 70% of the population of the department of Amazonas has a GDP per capita of approximately less than 2 000 new soles, is considered as a department with low economic dynamics, with little chance that they produce serves to educate their children give them better dressed, technify their areas of cultivation, etc.
also more than 400 thousand inhabitants of Loreto show a GDP per capita of 1383 soles, a figure that by itself explains the problem of main activity that is dedicated to the people.
Then President Garcia when he puts the label "sold the jungle" in disguised form in his speeches in recent months, it really is doing is promoting a business. A private business interests does not affect farming in a positive way. Rather, it is likely to be conducive to scenarios where the intention to expropriate lands to communities that are mostly engaged in agricultural activity occurs under the aegis of the State.
What is really up to implement in the RAs, are projects of modernization of agriculture, market research and to give decentralized authorities sufficient decision-making capacity to decide on economic policies applied in these regions. See more
