Characterization productive associate of The Rihito coffee community

Abstract

The work was developed in the period understood between February and December of the 2006, in the community of Rihito de Matías, located to more than 360 msnm in the municipality of Tercer Frente, Santiago de Cuba province with the purpose of to characterize the active labor force of the Rihito community and to deepen about the possibility of creating new employment sources in the area, to determine the main characteristics of the agroforestry in the valley and surrounding areas, in the related with the preservation of the soil and the water, to identify the main problems that affect the caficulture, as well as the use and management of the natural resources and of the derived residuals of the productive process. One kept in mind an universe of 49 family nuclei, a Cooperative of Agricultural Production, a primary school, a commercial center, a medical clinic of the family, 17 individual producers of a Cooperative of Credits and Services, a center of benefit of coffee and a television room. The initial diagnosis community hurtled that alone 38.6 % was hard-working active prevailing the masculine sex with more than 36 years. Of them, 90.7 % works in the agriculture and the force of available work is insufficient, for the most part of advanced age and avid of training. It exists employment readiness and potentialities to increase new work positions. The coffee prevails as main cultivation. The production of foods is insufficient, measures of soil and water conservation, neither technologies or grateful resolutions are not applied as benefactors for the coffee grower and it exists poor use of the aquifers and generated waste.