Producers’ organizations
Different realities
The city generally offers more commercialization opportunities and thus forces to the dynamism to sell daily; in comparison with rural areas where the population are busy with activities of auto subsistence, and have few opportunities of economic income to improve their quality of life. Below are presented some elements of their realities:
The artisans of the city more often of marginal districts, have in their great majority:
- The possibility to accumulate small activities, for example for the women the laundry of clothes, the preparation of food, the ambulatory sale; and for the men mainly construction works, ambulatory sale, etc.
- More possibility to find other markets for the sale of handicrafts, as well as other opportunities,
- The possibility to know the market prices of the handicrafts and of other products or services,
- A more direct contact with the tourist market,
- Infrastructure conditions to be more "professionals" in their handmade activity (workshops, etc.).
The producers of rural areas in their great majority:
- Live in a situation of auto subsistence each family breeding some heads of cattle (sheeps, cows, llamas) and cultivating for their self-consumption (potato, quinua, beans, wheat, barley),
- Have few opportunities of economic incomes dedicating their time to their crops and cattle, and because of their distant location to markets,
- Women have few opportunities to leave their daily activities and to carry out economic activities outside of the traditional activities of the rural areas,
- Have hardly ever opportunity of contacts, even indirect, with tourists,
- Isolated from economic activities mainly linked to the city, they sometimes have few comparison elements to give value to their production and to claim representative prices.
Despite these different realitie, in the rural areas, the production of handicrafts is often one of the most adapted activity to the way of life of its population, particularly for the women, and it makes possible economic incomes if markets can be found.
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