Smallholders Ten members of the House Agricultural Tarija department involved in the production of chinchilla, in order to improve their income through the export of skins.
The chinchilla reproduction is time consuming, to say the manager of the Chamber of Agriculture, Stephen Miranda, however, once that is accomplished a lot "considerable", we can extract the skins are worth between 20 and 40 dollars.
Each of the 10 partners already has over 20 chinchillas. Some of them have up to 200. Once you get to be little more than 300 of these animals will begin to remove the skins for export to Argentina.
Miranda said it is necessary to add more partners to the project to be achieved as many of the same color skin. Reported that funding sought for this purpose, through a cooperative with which they are working for some years.
Between 2002 and 2004, on the other hand, the Chamber of Agriculture made an agreement with an institution producing chinchilla in Jujuy, which stipulated that the producers of these animals in Argentina, would teach farming techniques to Bolivian entrepreneurs and would give them food for their animals. For its part, the Bolivian producers should be exporting skins chinchilla to that country.
The Chamber of Agriculture, in those years, he sought financing for 56 of its partners, engaged in the production of chinchilla, but only achieved for 10 of its members, but now there is the possibility to get credit for that end.
Each female has three litters a year. Gestation is 111 days. Each eat between 25 to 30 grams a day. A Chinchilla living costs 200 dollars. The Fair
EXPOSURE, on the other hand, was shown chinchillas fur garments produced in the department as the Manager of the Chamber of Agriculture, but most were made animal skins produced in Argentina. In the fashion show dressed Pendas with chinchilla fur, and was shown to be an attractive, to say Miranda therefore encouraged to continue producing as there is a "high demand" international fur of these animals.
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