L’expérience d’AGROKASA : production agricole et oiseaux

The Sociedad Agrícola Drokasa. S.A (AGROKASA) is a company established in 1996 as part of Corporación Drokasa S.A., a family business group founded in 1951. In just 8 years, it has become the leading exporter of fresh asparagus and table grapes in Peru. Agrokasa manages three farms: Santa Rita and La Catalina in the department of Ica, and Las Mercedes in the north of Lima. La Catalina accounts for 87% of the crops and has been developed over a desert area, dry for many centuries.
An Integrated Pest Control policy has been introduced here, based on the experience of the first farm, Santa Rita, to install an adequate management system for soils, plants and ecosystems. Although not the main objective, interesting habitats for birds, seasonal and perennial, have been created here, and the management has launched surveys to study these birds so as to support their development and to preserve them.
We present you in this article the experience of Agrokasa in terms of sustainable agriculture in La Catalina and Santa Rita farms and the results of the ornithological surveys leaded in these two territories from 2003 to 2006. It is based on the book « Aves en El Desierto de Ica » by Victor Pulido, L. Salinas and C. Arana.