Coffee growers make improved pest management decisions through group learning and experimentation by crop stage
Farming families try to produce profitable crops with available resources, but they still face conditions of variability and uncertainty. Rainfall variability between 3 to 6 months affects crop vigor and phenology, pest levels, and crop practice efficiency. Farmers do not know which months will be below or above average when planning their crop, so when planning they have several sources of information such as experience, neighbors' experiences, expectations about prices, resources, climate and technical recommendations. For this reason, evaluations were carried out with participating farmers in 1997 and 1998, which showed that in the San Ramón cooperative, after 2 years of work, 4 of the original group of 6 farmers mentioned the sweeper as a problem pest. Farmers are more likely to communicate their results to other farmers, and farmers themselves proposed key skills they needed for better pest management: pest diagnosis, identification of factors that favor and disfavor crop susceptibility and pest increase, how to monitor pests and analyze numbers, experimentation and communication with other products.
Main Authors: | 74412 Guharay, F., 80937 JIMENEZ, C., 93505 Mendoza, R., 95556 Monterrey, J., 95578 Monterroso, D., 121514 STAVER, C., 40494 Aguilar, A., 52778 Calderon, M., CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza Turrialba, Costa Rica 3977, 6767 DANIDA, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 9270 GTZ, Eschborn (Alemania), 9451 ICRAF, Nairobi (Kenya), 2 IUFRO, Viena (Austria), International Symposium Multi-strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops Turrialba (Costa Rica) 22-27 Feb 1999, 80939 Jiménez, F., 47624 Beer, J. comps. |
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Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | spa |
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Turrialba (Costa Rica) Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
1999
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Subjects: | COFFEA ARABICA, AGROFORESTERIA, CONTROL DE PLAGAS, CAPACITACIÓN, |
Online Access: | https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10273 |
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