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Producción de maíz (Zea mays L.) hibrido ATL - 200 para elaboración de ensilaje en Restrepo, Meta
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Villalba, Camilo Lozano |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Livestock is one of the most important economic activities in the municipality of Restrepo, Meta, after of mining and oil industry. It is also the main sustentance for the urban and rural families in this municipality. However, the drought period affect the cattle rancher by a shortage of food, for that reason, they are obliged to look for another way to supply the animals need. In addition to this fact, in Restrepo, the agriculture activities have considerately decreased by the little knowledge about it, the high value of the agricole supplies and low sold value of the harvest. All these has made farmers give up of agriculture and look for other economic income. These facts motivated the present project, which is focused on four components: agronomic, social, investigative and commercial, with the purpose of encouraging and/or increasing in agriculture on the project execution zone. The agronomic component was carried out with the implementation of maize crop (Zea mays L.), for silage, allowing to have a source of food in drought period and this way benefit the cattlemen of the municipality. In the social component, work was carried out through technical – practical training on organic agriculture and its benefits, this component was focused on small farmers in vereda Vega Grande in the municipality of Restrepo. At the end of this process the assistants already making their own organic products like composting and some biopreparations for the protection and nutrition of their crops and they implemented organic orchards. In the research component, the crops maize (Zea mays), bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common buttercup (Ranunculus acris) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus) were associated with the purpose of taxonomically identifying the specimens of insects that frequented this association, also were made a classification of the effect they cause to the after mentioned crops, either positive or negative. In the commercial component, was obtained a total production of 18 tons of silage, but due to the adverse environmental conditions, 12 tons were finally marketed. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ciencia.lasalle.edu.co/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1135&context=ingenieria_agronomica |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
