Sistema de rotación de cultivo de papa en la cuenca del río Vilcanota, en la región Cuzco, Perú

Abstract

Vilcanota River basin  was evaluated with the objective to analyze the production system of potato and faba bean and determinate potential areas for these crops using satellite images and geographical information systems. Both crops have a singular dynamics in the southern Andes of Peru and a large area. This is for the influence in the  rural economy and  feeding the urban population.  In order to know the management of crops by farmers three field visits were conducted to survey, understand and identify the sequences and associations when the potato and faba bean crops are involved, and georeference their fields to identify and locate spatially in order to determine the conditions and characteristics of the areas of cultivation. With the information from Principal component analysis was conducted with the field data.  To find the factors that  determine the variability of the study area.  With the Cluster analysis could be identified the different types of systems into the  basin.