section_path: Economy/Agriculture
section_name: Agriculture
paragraph_text: Agriculture
  
  It was the main economic activity in the Tawantinsuyu, followed by livestock raising. It was a mixed economy with agrarian technology based on ancestral knowledge such as the andenes (terraces), wachaque (sunken fields), waru waru (raised fields), cochas (artificial lakes); and the improvement of cultivation tools, like the chaquitaclla and the raucana. The potato was the staple food with over 200 species and 5000 different varieties while corn and coca were considered sacred plants.
  
  They also built agrobiological experimentation centers such as Moray (Cusco), Castrovirreyna (Huancavelica) and Carania (Yauyos), through circular terraces where the products of the entire empire were reproduced.