Study of social management and productive local of agricultural activity in the community of Yanallpa, Requena, Perú

Abstract

The objectives were to describe the knowledge, cultivation practices, floristic composition and ways of using the garden farm in the community of Yanallpa in order to contribute to its better understanding. A total of 39 species were recorded; identifying 2 types and 4 culture subtypes; the diversity of species found was up to 3,39 for the Margalef index and 1,54 for the Shannon index. The similarity in pairs of gardenfarm had a maximum of 51 % and a minimum of 5 % of shared species. The main categories of use reported were food, medicine, firewood, construction material and domestic use. The orientation of the production was mostly mixed; there is an association of plants reflected mostly in diversity of species that, in number of individuals, with high diversity indices determined mainly by the needs and interests of their owners. In conclusion, it is observed that the care of the garden farm is very related to the family and the importance and affection that it gives to the cultivation of its plants, since the adult members through their ancestral and local knowledge have managed an adequate management of the species, for that reason the emotionality and the rituality are present, to such a point that to ignore the local cosmovision and even more, not to understand it in spite of knowing it; can put at risk the success of development projects in communities like Yanallpa.