Characterization of urban and peri-urban gardens in Xalapa de Enríquez, Veracruz
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https://doi.org/10.47808/revistabioagro.v6i2.Especial.207Keywords:
urban agriculture, biodiversity, pests, phytosanitary practices, sovereignty and food securityAbstract
The need to acquire food in an adequate and healthy way has led to seek and strengthen alternatives for their production; urban and peri-urban agriculture is practiced in the cities (AUyP) and Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, is an example of this. Since 2013, the Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Network of Xalapa (RAUPX) has been self-managed, which focused on the objective of this research, which consisted in characterizing the gardens of the RAUPX, based on the variables: garden size , diversity (Shannon index), presence of arthropofauna and phytosanitary management practices, in order to diagnose and provide proposals for the improvement of integrated pest management. The results include general producer- garden data such as age range, level of studies, area, representative botanical families, presence of artropofauna in relation to the cultivated species and management of phytosanitary practices according to their complexity. Phytosanitary practices carried out by producers are corrective rather than preventive and are moderately related to the presence of pests.
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