A study on the temporary and permanent agrodiversity in some farmsfrom La Palma, Pinar del Río and Gibara, Holguín

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Published: Jul 5, 2012
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farms, biodiversity, rural participativediagnosisPalabras

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Dania Vargas Blandino
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas

Abstract

At present, as a result of the anthropogenicactivity and industrial development, the biological diversity isbeing eroded, even the agrodiversity managed by farmers. InCuba, since the nineties, there was a transitional period inagriculture, during which they tried to rescue Creole varietiesfrom the main crops of the state sector and productive formswith an agroecologic approach, to get adapted to our countrycrisis. In the following study, the temporary and permanent(higher than 3-m woody plants) agrodiversity kept andmanaged by farmers in their estates was evaluated in twolocalities. Agrodiversity was submitted to an inventory persite, where the areas of each plot of crops and trees weresampled, to calculate Margalef y Shannon Weaver´s diversityindexes, so as to know the species wealth and performancewithin the farm. Therefore, Pinar del Río farms show a greaterdiversity regarding temporary and permanent species wealthand performance than those from Holguin farms; also perennialspecies-growing areas for both localities are more balancedconcerning wealth and performance in the farm than thetemporary ones, since monoculture is a more common practicewithin temporary crops and there is a main crop per each farm.It became evident that farmers are able to preserve agrodiversity,mainly the Creole or local species. This study approached twoworking methods (inventory of species and calculus ofdiversity indexes) and similar results were obtained for bothsites, where grove areas are more stable than those of temporarycrops.

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Vargas Blandino, D. (2012). A study on the temporary and permanent agrodiversity in some farmsfrom La Palma, Pinar del Río and Gibara, Holguín. Cultivos Tropicales, 32(1), 62–70. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/56
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Vol. 32 No. 1 (2011)
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Original Article

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