ANAPQUI Asociación Nacional de Productores de Quinua

The National Association of Quinoa Producers (ANAPQUI) is a 2nd level OECA that within its organizational structure has 8 1st regional level within these local actors come to 1,260 members of the quinoa producing real-which 284 are women and 976 men from 157 communities in 7 provinces and 5 municipalities, and its area of action the intersalar de Uyuni and Coipasa, south-western highlands of Bolivia in the departments of Potosí (4 organizations) and Oruro (4 regional organizations), respectively, the 1,260 associated producers ANAPQUI partners have an arable area of 35,000 hectares. Of which 14,000 hectares. In cultivation and 72,000 head of cattle camelid (llama). The production is done in accordance with standards of organic production, regulation 834/2007 - 889/2008 EU, NOP-USDA United States, organic production system CAN / CGSB-32 320 and CAN/CGSB-32.311 and fulfilling the criteria for Fairtrade (ANAPQUI FLO ID 3658).