Trout Farming in Peru:The Lake Titicaca Decision

Trout Farming in Peru : The Lake Titicaca Decision

Trout Farming in Peru : The Lake Titicaca Decision

Q1 . What are the major challenges that Joaquin faced with the initiation of operation at Lake Titicaca

Answer

Lake Titicaca which was regarded as the world 's no 1 commercially navigable lake has it western shores forming part of Peruvian province of Puno . It also has several host of other feature that makes it suitable for fish farming

Joaquin faced certain challenges when the Lake Titicaca proposal was made . Such problems or challenges that

were faced with the initiation of the lake operations include

The lake formed part of the red zone which was formerly controlled by Shining path Guerillas which are characterized by terrorism during their uprising hence an increased formed of violence in the area . Such form of reported cases of violence was that of the murdered mayor of Ilave at the region . This is a major factor that resulted in hindrance in establishing or initiating the operations of the proposed trout farming at the Lake

Another major challenge is the poor infrastructure for fishery possessed by those farmers that were initially there hence there would be a need to replace those processing plants with a larger modern facility which was found to cost more hence doubling their investment cost

Poor mode of transportation is also another challenge because of far distance of the closest urban centre to the lake hence taking goods to such region would be difficult compared to what...