Abstract

SANTISTEVAN MENDEZ, Mercedes; JULCA OTINIANO, Alberto; BORJAS VENTURA, Ricardo  and  TUESTA HIDALGO, Oscar. Characterization of coffee farms in Jipijapa (Manabí, Ecuador). Ecol. apl. [online]. 2014, vol.13, n.2, pp.187-192. ISSN 1726-2216.

This research was carried out to characterize coffee farms located at the province of Manabí (Ecuador). We worked with the Coffee Producers Association of Cabo de Hacha which has a population of 451 farmers from which a sample (n=83) was taken to conduct a survey which included technical and socio-economic questions related to coffee farming. Results showed that coffee farms are very complex, that families have a high dependence on the cultivation of coffee; but also have small areas devoted to other crops, in which a low level of technology is used and are mainly for self-consumption. We also found that there is a lack of basic services in the area under study. The cluster analysis using Ward's method and a distance of 900 Euclidean Square, grouped farms into seven groups. One group consisted of farms number 19, 24, 36 and 81, that grow the same type of coffee and obtain similar coffee cherry yields.

Keywords : Farms; agricultural diagnosis; characterization; coffee three; Ecuador.

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