Exploration of limitations to the adoption of amaranth cultivation in the Platense Horticultural Belt
The need for a more sustainable agricultural system is today a reality in the Platense Horticultural Belt (CHP) region. The incorporation of amaranth cultivation is a possibility. Despite its abilities, it has not yet expanded and/or established itself in this territory. Farmers are reflective and subjects of change, but situated and conditioned by structure, space and time. To decide to incorporate a new crop, external and internal factors come into play that play an important role in enabling or conditioning the appropriation of the technology. In this research, internal and external factors limiting the appropriation of this crop in family farmers of the CHP were preliminarily identified; Then, a qualitative analysis was carried out with the intention of understanding these limitations. The unconscious resistance of producers would be one of the limiting factors that interacts with the supposed ignorance of amaranth at a social level.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Centro de Historia Argentina y Americana
2024
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| Online Access: | https://www.mundoagrario.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/MAe256 |
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| Summary: | The need for a more sustainable agricultural system is today a reality in the Platense Horticultural Belt (CHP) region. The incorporation of amaranth cultivation is a possibility. Despite its abilities, it has not yet expanded and/or established itself in this territory. Farmers are reflective and subjects of change, but situated and conditioned by structure, space and time. To decide to incorporate a new crop, external and internal factors come into play that play an important role in enabling or conditioning the appropriation of the technology. In this research, internal and external factors limiting the appropriation of this crop in family farmers of the CHP were preliminarily identified; Then, a qualitative analysis was carried out with the intention of understanding these limitations. The unconscious resistance of producers would be one of the limiting factors that interacts with the supposed ignorance of amaranth at a social level. |
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