Biotic indicators of climate change: passion fruit and coffee cases

Abstract

Agricultural activity constitutes a sector of interest in Perú; 73% of the rural EAP is dedicated to this activity, the currencies generated reach U.S. $ 1,800 million; it is highly vulnerable to climate change. Agriculture is affected by water scarcity, due to the water dependence of snowy and wetlands. The work was carried out in the high Amazon of Cusco, in La Convention, two typical crops with consequences on the peasant economy were evaluated; the passion fruit (Passiflora ligularis juss) and the coffee tree (Coffea arabica) that in the last three decades have suffered consequences of climate change in the micro basins of the Saqqara and Yanatile rivers in the district of Santa Teresa; the effects are the attack of plagues and diseases, the low yield; because of this, today these cultivars are developed at 2,300 m.a.s.l., which were previously harvested at 1,500 m. of altitude.