Foot plough
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The foot plough is a type of plough used like a spade with the foot in order to cultivate the ground.
Illustration of Andean farmers using a chaki taklla "footplough", by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, 1616.
A farmer using the chaki taklla in the village of Hatunqulla, Puno Region, Peru
Inca agriculture
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Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts, and the rainforests of the Amazon basin.
Foot plough
…1600. The Inca King and accompanying provincial lords used foot ploughs in the "opening of the earth" ritual at the beginning of the agricultural cycle. Incan agriculture used the chaki taklla or taklla, a type of foot plough. Laia - the Basque h-shaped tool, also described as a foot plough…
Agricultural Andenes or terraces in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, close to Pisac, Peru.
Terraces were built to permit agriculture in the rugged terrain of the Andes.
Quinoa field near Lake Titicaca.
Around 200 varieties of potatoes were cultivated by the Incas and their predecessors.