Innovations offered by the agricultural actors of the south pacific of Nicaragua and their implementation in the family farming production systems period 2015-2020

Abstract

In order to analyze the innovation technologies offered by different actors in the South Pacific of Nicaragua that could be implemented in family farming production systems and contribute to the improvement of their production and productivity, a research was carried out with a Mixed Approach, which integrated quantitative methods and qualitative: univariate statistical analysis, interviews with seven officials from institutions and organizations in the territory; three focus groups. Quantitative data were collected from 380 surveys of producers in southern Nicaragua. The reductive analysis of the qualitative information, provided by the participating actors, was implemented. The main results obtained and conclusions were: the population under study were small agricultural producers, the agricultural area has an average of 2.83 mz. 46% of the producers in the production systems are Leading Producers; 37% are members of Community Seed Bank; 16% are owners of Research and Technological Innovation Farms. 71% of the producers implemented some type of innovation that has been adopted by another producer; These producers affirmed that the innovations are helping to improve the production of their crops. The main technologies offered by the Institutions and other actors in the territory were: three for Basic Grains, four for Major and Minor Livestock, two for IPM Practices, five for OCS and A Implementation, and eight for Agro-socioeconomic Practices.