Abstract

PALACIOS BUCHELI, Vandreé Julián  and  BARRIENTOS FUENTES, Juan Carlos. The farm systems in two indigenous territories of Putumayo (Colombia), a technical economic comparative assessment. Acta Agron. [online]. 2014, vol.63, n.2, pp.91-100. ISSN 0120-2812.  https://doi.org/10.15446/acag.v63n2.29358.

The intended outcome of this research is to comparatively assess the farm systems in two indigenous territories of Putumayo (Colombia): San Félix (1° 10' 34.67" N and 76° 55' 04.33" W), and Tamabioy (1° 10' 24.36" N and 76° 56' 55.54" W). Both of these territories are located at an altitude of between 2.000 and 2.150 metres above sea level, and have an average temperature of 15°C. The methods we used to obtain our primary information were a census and interviews. In both the census and interviews, it was neccesary for participants to answer a survey that contained open and closed questions. Through these surveys, we found that 33 out of the 55 families in the Tamabioy indigenous territory, and 54 out of the 70 families in the San Félix indigenous territory, have agrarian activity as their main economic activity for income. For the Tamabioy terroritory, 33 families represents 49.5% of the total population, and in San Félix, 54 families represents 49% of the total population. In both territories, there are three types of agrarian systems: traditional, market, and mix. The traditional system has the home garden as main agrarian system; the market system has the corn/bean relay and dairy as the main systems; finally, the mix is a combination between traditional and market systems. Other economic activities &nin the territories are farm and home services, handicrafts, and agro-businesses. The market of agrarian outputs in the Tamabioy territory is more efficient than the San Félix territory because it's located close to the head municipalities of San Francisco and Sibundoy. Thus, this research will show that the market and mix systems have easily entered the territory and consequently the home gardens have lost importance.

Keywords : Camëntsá; peasant economics; traditional agriculture; tropical agroforestry homegardens.

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