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Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA)
Develops improved varieties of quinoa, kiwicha, tarwi, cañihua and potato and makes them available to farmers as certified seed.
How can INIA help your biobusiness?
- What it offers
improved varietiescertified seedgermplasm banksdemonstration plots
- At what stage
- I'm already operating
- Who it serves
- Individual entrepreneurs · Associations and cooperatives
- Products
- Quinoa, Kiwicha (amaranth), Tarwi (Andean lupin), Cañihua, Native potatoes
How do you access INIA?
- Can you apply directly?
- Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
- Do you need a business that already operates?
- Yes
- How hard is it to access?
- Easy access
- Do you pay or co-fund?
- To be agreed
- Where does the money come from?
- Public
Mapping classification: Farmers access INIA varieties as certified seed; the sources do not say whether seed is given free or sold, so no cost or repayment value is assigned.
Who does INIA overlap with?
Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.
- FAO PerúApurímac, Arequipa, Cusco +3 · Quinoa, Tarwi (Andean lupin), Native potatoes
- Redesign LabLoreto, Cajamarca, La Libertad +5 · Quinoa, Tarwi (Andean lupin)
- Fondo PunaApurímac, Arequipa, Cusco +1 · Native potatoes, Quinoa, Kiwicha (amaranth)
- NESsTCusco, Puno, Loreto +3 · Tarwi (Andean lupin), Native potatoes
- AgromercadoPuno, Cajamarca, La Libertad +7 · Quinoa
- AECIDCajamarca, Cusco, La Libertad · Quinoa, Tarwi (Andean lupin)
Sources and references
Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.
Its San Roque Experimental Station (Iquitos) conserves 404 accessions of crops such as native cocoa, camu camu, peach palm, plantain and heliconias, and serves producers in the eight provinces of Loreto. Agraria.pe: Loreto: impulsan la innovación agraria y fortalecen el desarrollo productivo sostenible
INIA's 19 Andean grain varieties (12 of quinoa, 4 of kiwicha, 2 of tarwi and 1 of cañihua) raised yields per hectare by 80 % over the last 3 years, benefiting more than 100 thousand small and medium farmers in 15 departments. Agraria.pe: Granos andinos de alta calidad mejoran en un 80 % capacidad de cosecha de hectáreas
INIA has developed 43 potato varieties and conserves 350 native potato varieties at the Andenes Agricultural Experiment Station in Cusco. Agraria.pe: INIA ha desarrollado a la fecha 43 variedades de papa de alta calidad genética