Sistemas silvopastoriles en la producción ganadera del cantón El Carmen.

Abstract

Silvopastoral systems are an alternative to the traditional management of cattle farming, its purpose is to reduce the negative effects of this activity on the ecosystem, the present research work was developed in the Wilfrido Loor Moreira parish called "Maicito" located in the canton El Carmen, province of Manabí at km 42 of the Santo Domingo – Chone road; with the objective of evaluating the potential of the application of silvopastoral systems in livestock production in the Wilfrido Loor Moreira parish of the El Carmen - Manabí canton; For this, the information of the associated farmers of the locality was taken and through a survey for data collection, each producer was visited, the information collected was tabulated in the Microsoft Excel office software. The results determined that the ranchers of the sector have a majority meat production system, managed mainly with qualified labor; the feeding system of the animals consists of the stabling and in great proportion the extensive one under pastures of the Panicum maximun variety distributed especially between 11 to 15 paddocks on average, the fertilization levels of these are between low and medium; in the implementation of silvopastoral systems, ranchers prefer to plant fruit trees in the middle of the paddocks, the most frequent populations exceed 21 trees per paddock, as soon as the fences live, the trend indicates that the number of forest species does not exceed 20 trees per farm.