 The main objective of my work is to develop new varieties for the farmer with better yield, better quality, better resistance to disease, and also tolerance to drought. And one way to get this kind of varieties is using mutation induction. In the Andes and in general in many rural areas of Peru, we have problems of malnutrition with children especially below five years old. I think in the rural area the amount of children with this problem is near to 30%, especially in Juancavelica. It's a department we are doing also research work with the farmer. The mutation induction will occur in natural conditions but take thousands of years to change the gene. Using irradiation we can get maybe in 10 years a new variety. The radiation going through the seeds will change the genetics of the plant. This change could be positive and could be also negative. So with plant breeder we need to check the plants to find the positive change. Using mutation induction methodology in the past year we worked with barley and wheat and other crops. With barley we found a very good result. We have two varieties that are growing in the highland. One of them is Centenario with a good yield, good quality. In this time it's the best cultivar in Peru. Following this success we start working with Quinoa. In my country Quinoa is a very important crop because it is a highly nutritive crop and also has a very good adaptation to many environments. But now that we are increasing the area of production we are finding many problems among them disease. So we need in this moment to apply fungicides to have healthy crops but it's not good for the organic production of Quinoa of Peru. We need to find resistant plants. So we use mutation induction technology using gamma ray to irradiate seeds of a traditional variety of the highland of Peru that is susceptible to this disease. International Atomic Energy Agency is helping our work since 1978. We have fellowship, we have a scientific visit with equipment also. So we are improving our work in the university. We are more ready to make better varieties for the farmers, for the industry and in general for the people of Peru.