Specific diagnosis in urban gardens of southeast Havana. A survey of its sociodemographic and environmental characteristics, the technology applied and agroecosystem
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gardens, its producers and families. Several ecological indexes
were applied to describe agroecosystems in 20 gardens located
in five places from �??Boyeros�?� and �??Arroyo Naranjo�?�
municipalities, Havana city, between December, 1998 and
March, 1999. Every garden agroecosystem showed a
satisfactory biodiversity: plant species were predominant to
animal species, and all gardens were rather similar. Dominance
indexes were really variable. 60 % gardeners preferred plant
production whereas 35 % adopted both productions. Exotic
species such as cashew were found in one city garden. All
gardeners obtain the seed from most species of vegetable,
leguminous, garden and fruit crops. Their general background
on biotechnologies applied to sustainable urban agriculture is
still relatively poor, since gardeners neither know nor
consciously use earth-worm and fish farming, biofertilizers,
biopesticides and biostimulants; only one knows level curves
and its significance whereas almost half of them does not
consciously employ crop rotation.
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