Peanut
📍 BoliviaClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .
Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .
Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.
Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .
Where Peanut grows in Bolivia
Gran Chaco
It has a semi-tropical, semi-arid climate. Northeasterly winds bring rain and humidity beginning in January; the other months are dry with hot days and cool nights. Temperatures and amounts of precipitation in mountain areas vary considerably [Source: Wikipedia]. It covers part of the departments of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija.
Interandinos valleys
They are located in the Departments of the central regions of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca and regions of La Paz. These are where the humid northeasterly winds are pushed up into the mountains, making this area wetter and rainier. The valleys that are within the Eastern Cordillera have mild temperatures and the amounts of precipitation are moderate with an average of 640 to 760 mm per year (Source: Wikipedia]
Oriental plains and Humid Tropic
It is the general denomination of the lowlands of Bolivia, covering a large part of the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Cochabamba and La Paz to the east and bordering the region of the Inter-Andean Valleys to the west. , with an average height of less than 400 meters above sea level.
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