Factores que inciden para la pérdida de los saberes ancestrales de la producción de papá (Solanum tuberosum) en la comunidad San Miguel de Quera del cantón Riobamba

Abstract

The research was carried out in the San Miguel de Quera community of the Riobamba canton, aimed at potato farmers, with the purpose of collecting information to know the factors that affect the loss of ancestral knowledge, whose information allowed to collect information and analyze it To rescue the knowledge that is maintained in the agricultural work of the community especially in the cultivation of potatoes. The research was descriptive, through interviews and surveys to the farmers of the community, to gather information on ancestral techniques in field preparation, seed selection, crop management, disease and pest control, irrigation, harvesting, postharvest (Solanum tuberosum), a semi-structured survey was prepared and tested with several questions. The results of the research, allow to determine that the knowledge acquired by the farmers are inherited from the older ones, that the land work mostly manually, as it allows them to control the quality of the soil, for planting they use native seeds because they have less problems Phytosanitary and yield. The factors that positively influence the ancestral knowledge regarding potato cultivation in relation to the preparation of manual soil with hoe with 80%, natural soil disinfection with 100% ash, seed origin 74%, handling of bad Manual herbs 100%, and manual hoeing with hoe or yoke with 100%.