Abstract

VALLEJO ZAMORA, Yanet et al. Agrarian training from farmers’ view in Boyeros municipality, Havana, Cuba. cultrop [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.2, pp. 149-154. ISSN 1819-4087.

At present, Credit and Service Cooperatives (CSC) are the most productive and numerous in the country, with the greatest amount of partners and usufructuaries, which have promoted training needs of information on scientific and technical advances; therefore, this work was conducted with the objective of analyzing agrarian training from farmers’ view. The investigation was performed in 20 CSCs from Boyeros municipality, Havana, Cuba, by applying a survey to 256 producers, which had two general questions aimed to know producers’ working experience on the agrarian activity and three specific questions responding to three variables: training significance, the way producers receive training information and how producers demand training. The survey was processed through SPSS statistical package version 19 for complex designs. The main results showed that the development of training activities is very important to producers; besides, a high percentage of them refer that their training attendance obeys decision-makers’ indication and, finally, most of them point out that they have rarely or never participated in a training demand inquiry

Keywords : participation; cooperative; farmers; training.

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