Evaluación de la producción de huertos ecológicos del programa Semillas Para El Futuro e INCAP, en Chocolá, San Pablo Jocopilas, Suchitepéquez.

Vásquez Chang, Grenda Elizabet (2018) Evaluación de la producción de huertos ecológicos del programa Semillas Para El Futuro e INCAP, en Chocolá, San Pablo Jocopilas, Suchitepéquez. Other thesis, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Semillas Para El Futuro is a non-governmental organization, created in 2010 with the purpose of contributing to the local development of the agricultural community Chocolá, San Pablo Jocopilas, Suchitepéquez. This organization works jointly with the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), in the program "Maternal and Child Agricultural and Nutrition Changes of Behavior in Rural Areas of Suchitepéquez". In Chocolá, this program consists of the implementation of ecological gardens of 62 families, and as objectives, they set out to identify the management of the orchards, quantify their production and determine the cost benefit of their implementation. The general objective of the research is to evaluate the production of rural family ecological gardens, using as a target population all families benefited in Chocolá. The methodological used to reach the objectives includes, interviews to the families, observations, field visits and estimation of the cost benefit through the method of observation and quantification of the production of the orchards. Among the results obtained from the research, the following can be mentioned: For the implementation of the ecological garden, the families of the program must start three months before, with the production of organic fertilizer. The preparation of the soil and location of the garden is crucial for efficient production, it must be in a place where there is light, near a water source to facilitate irrigation, etc. The seeds are provided by the program for an average cultivated area per family of 6.28 square meters, equivalent to 75 pylons or herbal seeds. The production of the orchards was measured for three months, the results show that on average the grass with the highest production is the chipilín (Crotalaria longirostrata), with 22.31 kgs, followed by the chard (Beta vulgaris var. Cicla L) with 20.92 kgs, later the grass dwells (Solanum spp) with 17.66 kgs, the parrot (Amaranthus spp) 17.44 kgs, quixtán (Solanum wendlandii) 15.46 kgs, chaya (Cnidoscolus chayamansa) 10.08 kgs and quilete (Cnidoscolus chayamansa) 0.44 kgs. It was determined that the cost of implementing a family ecological garden is Q 271.00; with the monthly production of the garden, families can cover an average of viii 48 meal times, a total saving of Q 159.84, taking into account that each meal time per person is Q 3.33, (according to estimates made based on local market prices) and interviews made to the families of the program.) Recovering the investment in 51 days. The organic garden produces for two and a half months without the need to replant, therefore the economic benefit for Seeds for the Future amounts to Q 127.87 and for families it is Q 399.60 since they do not cover the costs. Therefore, if you subtract the implementation of the garden would be 399.60 minus 271.00 gives a total of Q 128.60.

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