Bibliographic citations
Diaz, C., Martos, K. (2022). Centro de innovación productiva y trasferencia tecnológica para la cadena de la fibra de Alpaca en Sicuani - Cusco [Tesis, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/8930
Diaz, C., Martos, K. Centro de innovación productiva y trasferencia tecnológica para la cadena de la fibra de Alpaca en Sicuani - Cusco [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/8930
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title = "Centro de innovación productiva y trasferencia tecnológica para la cadena de la fibra de Alpaca en Sicuani - Cusco",
author = "Martos Yupanqui, Kiara Stefany",
publisher = "Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego",
year = "2022"
}
During the Inca period, alpaca breeding achieved its highest peak, it was estimated that the production of this camelid reached several million heads. For the Incas the alpaca symbolized a sacred animal used as an offering in religious rituals and the alpaca wool was used throughout the Inca Empire for the manufacture of textiles. Today, alpaca is one of Peru's flagship products, due to its softness, thermal comfort and the wide variety of colors this natural fiber offers, has attracted the attention of international markets. The foreign trade of alpaca sweaters between January and June 2021 reached US$2′974,000, according to these figures alpaca fiber registers a high rentability in the textile market. However, the actors in the alpaca fiber production chain that obtain the greatest economic income are the large textile companies that have established a commercial monopoly in southern Peru, an area that has historically been linked to the conservation and breeding of camelids. As a consequence, Alpaca- breeding communities in Cusco face a harsh reality; a large part of the alpaca wool production is bought and sent to Arequipa for subsequent industrialization. The commercial system established years ago has left the alpaca breeders in huge disadvantage. Isolated from the commercial markets the globalized world offers, alpaca breeders are unable to compete with the established textile industry. Despite representing the weakest link in the textile production chain, the alpaca breeders carry out the most arduous and time-consuming tasks that raising an alpaca involves, at the same time the communities dedicated to alpaca breeding have helped conserve the ancestral techniques inherited from the Inca culture. In response to this problem, we propose the design of a building to support alpaca breeding communities in order to eradicate poverty in high Andean societies. The main mission of CITE-Alpaca will be to promote the sustainable rural development of the alpaca breeding communities in the Cusco region, with the values of social inclusion, productive innovation and technology transfer. 26 The CITE- ALPACA CUSCO will seek to promote efficiency in the regional production of alpaca fiber, though the portfolio of services provided, such as the certification of skills to rural talents, technical and informative talks, business and entrepreneurship talks, genetic bank. In order to satisfy the necessities of the alpaca breeding communities the project will have different zones: laboratories, workshops, business incubator area, a residential block and a textile pilot plant. For the architectural design of the building, the main characteristics of Inca architecture were taken in consideration, while taking into account the traditions and cultural activities of the alpaca-breeding communities.
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