Evaluating the impact of participatory varietal selection of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in La Palma, Pinar del Río
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Abstract
municipality, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, to evaluate the
impact of participatory plant breeding on small farmers�?? local
seed system of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The
research work considered the first participatory varietal
selection of common bean to be conducted in a diversity seed
fair organized by a farmer from La Jocuma village, a rural Cuban
community located in La Palma municipality. In this event, 58
farmers from La Palma participated and presented 50 bean
varieties of different origin, commercial, precommercial and
landrace, coming from the formal and informal seed sectors.
As programmed by the organizers of the event, farmers had
the opportunity to select up to five varieties of their preference
based on their own selection criteria. Generally, it can be
confirmed that participatory varietal selection allowed farmers
to have access to a wide diversity of varieties, which contributed
to increase the varietal diversity of common bean in the
participating communities. Moreover, this selection proved to
be effective as a strategy to encourage small farmers to adopt
and disseminate new varieties within their communities as well
as in the neighboring ones.
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