Land degradation and economic development in family agriculture of the parish Emilio María Terán, Píllaro

This research was aimed to quantify the effect of soil degradation on the economic income of family farming in the county of Emilio María Terán, Pillaro municipality in the Tungurahua province. A field survey was carried out using a closed-ended questionary that enabled to gather information about s...

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Autores: Montatixe Sánchez, Christian Iván, Eche Enriquez, Mauricio David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Central del Ecuador
Repositorio:Revista Siembra
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistadigital.uce.edu.ec:article/1735
Acceso en línea:https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/SIEMBRA/article/view/1735
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:suelo
erosión
antropogénica
productividad
ingresos
ground
erosion
anthropogenetic
productivity
income
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Sumario:This research was aimed to quantify the effect of soil degradation on the economic income of family farming in the county of Emilio María Terán, Pillaro municipality in the Tungurahua province. A field survey was carried out using a closed-ended questionary that enabled to gather information about soil degradation, socio-economic and farm production. The survey was applied to 196 households´ farmers heads from 11   neibourghoods. The percentage of the degraded soil that is not cultivated was 70.9%. The qualitative analysis showed that farmers´ economy was precarious together with degraded soils farms. However, from the quantitative analysis soil degradation was not associated with the farm economic income.