Mirna Echave reports for La Prensa: PEOPLE INHABIT IN TOWNS LOCATED OVER 3,500 METERS [above sea level] ALMOST 2.9 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN HIGH MOUNTAIN The Government made a diagnosis on the mountainous area of Bolivia. In Bolivia, 2.9 million people live at locations above 3,500 meters above sea level, according to the Prime Diagnostic…
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Five new varieties of wheat to be grown in Bolivia this 2015!
De http://www.hoybolivia.com: They launched this year 5 varieties of wheat The National Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Innovation (INIAF) will launch five new varieties of wheat this year, days CEO, Hans Mercado. “This year 2015, will be the release of these varieties,” he said at the launch of the Public Presentation of INIAF’s 2014 Final…
Santa Cruz concentrates 83% of legalizing land clearing
Fernando Rojas reports for El Deber: Santa Cruz concentrates 83% of legalizing land clearing Under the state plan, 512,291 hectares and the production of grain and livestock, priority shall be recorded. At least 2,022 (83%) of agricultural land, livestock, dairy, pig farmers and poultry farmers, of 2,426 that legalized clearing, were executed between 1996 and…
Bolivia: Due to excessive rain, orange alert in seven rivers
El Dia reports: 12 deaths to date Orange alert in seven rivers in the country Showers. The Ichilo, Mamore, Rio Grande, Madre de Dios, Acre and Tijamuchi are growing. The director of Emergency and Relief of Civil Defense, Reynaldo Pinola, reported yesterday [01/14/2015] that orange alert was declared at least in seven rivers in the…
Nancy Kasai Janko: Confessions of the “pollera” doctor awarded by El Deber
Nelfi Fernandez reports for El Deber: Confessions of the “pollera” doctor awarded by El Deber Nancy Kasai Janko will become the first woman in pollera [skirt that some mestizo and indigenous women wear, its origin is Spaniard] graduated as medical doctor. She is a young woman who did not found an obstacle to get her…
Have you ever wondered why our start liquor is called Singani?
El Diario reports on our star product: SINGANI “Singani” was a town RESEARCH JOURNALISM DUG THE HISTORY AND THE ORIGIN OF ONE OF OUR COUNTRY’s TRADITIONAL BEVERAGE. PHOTOGRAPHY COMMEMORATES THE MOMENT WHEN A GROUP OF RESEARCHERS ENTERED SUD CINTI. Singani, during colonial and surely during the process of the War of Independence and in the…
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