Design and implementation of a sustainable production of foods and coffee model in the mountainous community Arroyo Colorado in Guisa municipality

Abstract

The work was developed during two years in the community mountainous Arroyo Colorado in the municipality Guisa, Granma province, with the objective to increasing the productions of foods and of coffee, at the same time that to improve indicators of the quality of life of the producers. Two productive entities were selected: a Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC) and a Cooperative of Credits and Services (CCS) dedicated to the coffee as fundamental line, in which ten properties were chosen. A diagnosis of each property was made and of each producer as for production of foods, production of coffee, environmental and social indicators, this was good to make a characterization of the scenario. Taking like reference the detected main obstacles, an action plan was implemented that included the training of the producers and its families, in topics that allowed to improve its cultural wealth and to facilitate the introduction of technologies and results. The developed actions allowed: to wake up interest for the production and the consumption of vegetables, to recover important viands varieties, vegetables and beans, which can be used as banks of seeds and reference areas, for their later generalization in the productive base, in the production of coffee discreet results were achieved that surpass that planned and it was possible to give ecological treatment to 25 t of residual solids, as measure of protection of the environment.