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ADOPCIÓN DEL PASTO Brachiaria brizantha CIAT 6780 CV MARANDÚ EN CUATRO MUNICIPIOS DE MATAGALPA, NICARAGUA ADOPTION OF Brachiaria brizantha CIAT 6780 CV MARANDÚ GRASS IN FOUR MUNICIPALITIES OF MATAGALPA NICARAGUA
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jorge, Blandón Néstor, Hernández Green Karina, Rivera Bryan, Mendieta-Araica |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Livestock sector is an very important item into the Nicaraguan society, it is mainly based in grasses and forages which are reason why is a fragile sector facing changing in herd distribution, bad livestock practices and climate change; as an alternative to improve the production systems a lot of research in grasses from Brachiaria genus has been done, however, with no adoption of them all this effort is worthless; this study identified that the most important socio-economic factors in the municipalities of Matiguas, Rio Blanco, Muy Muy y Paiwas for Marandu grass adoption are: Presence of projects in the area, topography, drought tolerance of the grass, technical services and schooling and where all those factors converge the probability of adoption is 95%. To get these results 130 interviews were done to farmers into the mentioned municipalities and data were analyzed by a logit model where independent variable was adoption and dependent variables were group in farmer characteristics, system characteristics, grass characteristics and external factors. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://repositorio.una.edu.ni/2675/1/ppe14b642.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.lamjol.info/index.php/CALERA/article/download/1633/1435 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |