As well as fertilizer Alflafa plants need a considerable amount of water to sustain it´s fast growth. When the plants are strong enough they can be cut every thirty five days. Our plan at Huacariz was to rely on the rains to provide the Alfalfa plants with water until the pump and watering system was installed in May. Alfalfa plants stop growing and then die during the dry season in the Cajamarca valley without a good source of water. The price of Alfalfa goes up considerably during this time. Our water system used a powerful industrial pump to pump water out of a well and through a system of rotating sprinkers to water an area of over five acres. The pump we planned on using was very powerful and capable of feeding up to six sprinklers at a time at a distance of 200 yards away. Although the price of Alfalfa per kilo is very low we planned to make our proft by producing it in bulk. Cattle rearing for milk production is a major industy in countries like Peru. Roger believed he could use his family´s contacts to find a regular buyer for our Alfalfa amongst the big commercial ranches that supplied milk for corporations such as Nestlé.

I was told by Roger quite clearly that we would register a company, in our names, in Cajamarca, but that this particular project would only last for four years. After which the Huacariz property would probably be sold by Roger´s family. The Diaz family far at Huacariz is apparently worth a lot of money, around $2 million by all accounts. It´s a big property and only about fifteen minutes out of the centre of town by truck. We would then move on to other projects and retain the pump and other equipment paid for by me. Roger will eventually make a lot of money when Huacariz is sold. He could happily live on his share of that money for the rest of his life if he wanted to. He wouldn´t have to work ever again if he stayed in Peru, married a beautiful girl and had a family etc. But at that time he was considerably more ambitious , he wanted to build a big company, and to gain wealth and power from it. Other people too have noticed his drive and ambition, but also his preoccupation not so say love of money. As I'll discuss later on, we had a number of other business ideas but they got shelved because of a lack of time and money which itself was due to the ever more protracted problems developing at Huacariz.