Desire for Greener Land

Human Environment
Mixed land per household
(ha)
10,000
Implementation activities, inputs and costs
Establishment activities
None
Maintenance/recurrent activities
Land user: Individual small scale land users,
mainly men
Population density: 10-50 persons/km 2
Annual population growth: < 0.5%
Land ownership: individual
Land use rights: individual
Water use rights: individual
Relative level of wealth: mainly poor land
users, which represent 80% of land users; 60%
of the total land area is owned by poor land
users
The additional activities compared to the normal monocropping
are:
1. Seeding legumes
2. Application of fertilizer
3. Harvesting with special machinery
The farmer needs legume seeds, fertilizer and proper
machinery for seeding and harvesting
Importance of off-farm income: 50-70 % of the
total income
Access to service and infrastructure: good:
energy, drinking water and sanitation; moderate:
health, education, technical assistance, employment,
roads & transport,
Low: financial services
Market orientation: mixed (subsistence and
commercial)
Technical drawing
Lupins forming part of the crop sequence (Lupinus
angustifolium) Photo: Soledad Espinoza
Maintenance/recurrent inputs and costs per ha per year
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour 146 100
Equipment
- renting seeder machine
- renting harvester
293
60
Agricultural
- seeds
- p fertilizers
- herbicide
306
80
TOTAL 745 76
Remarks: There are not establishment inputs and costs because in annual crops all the cost are recurrent
SLM Technology: Crop rotation with legumes, Chile DESIRE – WOCAT 2012
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