Floodplain Farming in the Peruvian Amazon

polycultural shifting cultivation and multi-variety permanent field cropping, are practiced by the residents. The former is carried out on the flood-free levee tops, while the latter occurs on terrain subject to annual inundation. Aside from farming, collecting, fishing, and hunting provide impor tant supplementary sources of food and marketable goods. The traditional livelihood techniques have shown to be adaptable to commercial economy. As such, they may be of potential value in the development of the Amazon. Sustained-yield agriculture, and thus surplus food production is