Objective

To characterize cattle production of the farmer sector in southwest Holguín, Cuba

Materials and Methods

A case study of the Cooperative of Credits and Services Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, Calixto García municipality, was conducted. For such purpose, two workshops were carried out, where through the elaboration of the cause-effect diagrams and Pareto’s diagram, as well as the evaluation of the acceptance degree, the problems and their possible solutions were identified. The limitations were grouped according to the researchers’ criterion in the evaluation areas, referred to the work methods, tools used and link with the environment. In addition, the percentage represented by each evaluation area with regards to the occurrence of the fundamental problem was calculated, from the weight of its contribution.

Results

Cattle husbandry in southwest Holguin shows as fundamental problem the deterioration of productive indicators. Its limitations are related, first, to the utilization of tools (35,0 %). In order of importance, it is followed by the ones concerning the environment (33,0 %); while the use of methods had lower representation (32,0 %). Problem selection was statistically validated for the deficit of medicines, lack of wire, insufficient area and lack of water, with Kendall’s concordance coefficients W higher than 0,5. The inadequate genotypes had a low concordance coefficient, with high significance (p < 0,01).

Conclusions

The main problems of the farmer sector in the cattle husbandry activity in southwest Holguín are subjective. They are related to the lack of methods and tools to improve the productive results of the farms, even when the environment is little favorable for animal production.

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