Percepción de los productores de cacao (Theobroma cacao) sobre los servicios de extensión agrícola

Agricultural extension as the service provided by the agents of extensionism, to promote productivity and knowledge, ideas and agricultural techniques, and the use of modern technologies. Agricultural extension is a system that focuses on empowering and equipping farmers with the skills to help them make sound decisions, solve their problems for themselves, and manage their agricultural business. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations mentions that agricultural extension activities help maintain and guarantee food security and increase the income of agro-producers; although globally not all farmers have access to these extension services, and if they do it is infrequently. As for agricultural extensionism in Ecuador in a certain way reveals an indisputable uncertainty, due to certain factors. . In the methods of extension Aguilera attributed: that the teaching activities of extensionism demonstrations, visits and meetings as the most common techniques within agricultural extensionism, and as means to transmit information, talks, films, slides and leaders as the most used. As for the classification of the methods, he developed them according to the number of participants and the type of channel used to transmit the information. Since the application of ICTs in the agricultural field, they have developed as one of the most attractive tools for extension companies, but authors such as Fossatti, Rodríguez and Anastasios et al allude that ICT tools are not capable of replacing the extensionist, nor the previous methods mentioned by Aguirre, concluding that ICT does not replace the personal encounter between the extension agent and the farmer.

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: García Mosquera, Dedibe Aldair (author)
• Μορφή: bachelorThesis
• Έκδοση: 2022
• Θέματα: Percepción agrícola; Theobroma cacao; Extensión agrícola; TIC
• Διαθέσιμο Online: http://dspace.utb.edu.ec/handle/49000/13197