Resumen

HERNANDEZ, Loracnis; PINO, María de los A  y  VARELA, M. Experimentation associated endogenous rural to urban agriculture in the provinces of Havana and Havana. cultrop [online]. 2010, vol.31, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 0258-5936.

This work was carried out in three municipalities of Havana City (Cotorro, Habana del Este and Guanabacoa) and two of Havana (San José de las Lajas and Bauta), with the objective of knowing urban growers´ process of endogenous experimentation and deciphering their logic to act in the agricultural areas, mainly with associated systems. A diagnosis was necessary for the research work, in order to obtain growers´ characterization and identify the rural experiments employed. The study was carried out by means of structured and semi-structured interviews with a diverse questionnaire. Then, 15 urban growers of different productive kinds were interviewed, besides five experts related to urban and sustainable agriculture. Interviews were recorded and transcribed electronically for their further analysis. The statistical procedure was performed through the descriptive statistics and confidence interval method. The questionnaire enabled to characterize growers to know their educational levels and the amount of years they have been working, so that to establish a relationship between their creativity to use innovations and the acquired ability. About 18 experiments or innovations were identified, standing out crop associations, moon influence, sowing distance and biodiversity introduction significantly

Palabras clave : urban agriculture; experimentation; diagnosis; interviews; companion crops.

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