Abstract

YONG CHOU, Ania et al. Flowers production in the urban agriculture of San José de las Lajas, Cuba. cultrop [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.3, pp. 94-100. ISSN 0258-5936.

The growing increase in the consumption of flowers in the municipality San José de las Lajas has caused that new species of court flowers are included in the agricultural systems, and with it new handling technologies. The training in the farmers’ situ, facilitated by investigators and for producing with more experience in this productive line, it was carried out through shops participatory and exchange visits. It was possible to increase the diversity in three species (chinese carnation, rose and nard) and six designed experiments were identified and driven by the producers and related with the introduction of species of flowers, associations and rotations, space arrangements and seed conservation

Keywords : flowers; diversity; rural experimentation.

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