ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS IN ‘PERSIAN’ LEMON (Citrus latifolia Tan.) IN TLAPACOYAN, VERACRUZ. USE OF LOGBOOK
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: To improve the efficiency of the adoption of technological innovations in the cultivation of ‘Persian’ lemon in San Pedro Tlapacoyan, Veracruz and increase the fruit yield and the benefit-cost (B/C) ratio of this economic activity, we used the “methodology of logbook innovation”, which was worked with 26 growers of this community for three cycles of production (2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2007/2008). This methodology consisted of a diagnosis, recommendations (advice), monitoring, evaluation and control of innovations made by the growers, by a professional service provider. The variables evaluated were: percentage of innovation adoptions, attributes of growers, incomes, costs of production, yields and B/C ratio. The first production cycle had a yield of 5.24 t∙ha-1 and a benefit/cost ratio of 1.55, attributable to the reduced percentage of innovations adoption of 15. After applying the proposed methodology, the income of the second cycle increased in 64 %, compared to the initial cycle, and 41 % between 2006/07 and 2007/08. The B/C ratio increased 68 % (from 1.56 to 2.28), which was associated to the increase of 29.6 per cent of innovation adoptions.
Authors: Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Campo Experimental Valle de México. km 13.5 Carretera Los Reyes-Texcoco, Coatlinchán, Estado de México, MÉXICO. C.P. 56250., Gustavo Almaguer-Vargas, Alma Velia Ayala-Garay
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $200
OpenAlex ID: W2129086744