PIAD
Program for Integrated Agricultural Development
Projects
Completed Projects
A problem with introducing a new technology to isolated native populations is the way in which it is introduced. There are many instances in which these groups of people do not use potentially beneficial technologies to improve their lives because the ideas were not harmoniously integrated into their way of life and culture. Unfortunately, the people will only use parts of the presented technology or it will often be abandoned all together and the potential of the project is never fulfilled. PIAD is aware of this problem and therefore its technicians spend a considerable amount of time in the villages, living amongst the people and taking time to find ways to integrate the new technologies together.
Below is a list of previous PIAD projects
| YEAR | PROJECT | REACH | RESULT |
| 1988 | Introduction of improved seeds support in seed production |
potato bean corn cob corn grain wheat |
good results in all the varieties |
| 1991 | Training and introduction of varieties in fruit-bearing flora (peach and apple) | peach varieties included:gumucio reyes saavedra elegance | varieties resistant to transport pruning packaging |
| 1991 | Commercialization support | in mediating potato the organization | pricing information markets transportation storage |
| 1991 | Training and technical attendance | use and handling of pesticides use and handling of pressurized irrigation |
use of appropriate clothes to fumigate handling of pesticides combination of products recognition of chemical products |
| 1991 | generation and transfer of technology | by means of institutions participating with PIAD | in different cultivations |
| 1997 | pressurized irrigation | steep slopes | groups |
| 1990 1997 |
Pressurized irrigation by gravity | use of different classes of tubes and accessories | poli-tubes and galvanized metal accessories poli-tube and aluminum accessories |
Previous PIAD credit programs
| YEAR | PROJECT | REACH | RESULT |
| 1982 1988 1997 2000 2002 |
Supply credits Supply credits Supply and monetary credits Monetary credits Monetary credits |
rural rural rural and urban rural and urban rural and urban |
individual in groups individual individual individual |
Current Projects
PIAD pioneered pressurized irrigation systems in Miska Mayu in 1990, and after seeing successful results are expanding on the project and to include closed irrigation canals. The Department of Cochabamba wants to contract PIAD to install a tube in the irrigation canal that will carry the water over 8 kilometers. Instead of the open canal, the enclosed tube will carry the water more efficiently. At each parcel of land there will be a valve to connect to the irrigation systems. This project will benefit the community in the following ways:
- Improved irrigation method
- Reduce loss of water
- Reduce labor hours
- More ecological for steep topography
- Better use of land
- Service more parcels of land
Currently the project is being adjusted for the requirements of parts of the community where the enclosed canal was denied for an open canal with an impermeable channel.