Demanda de semilla de rye grass y avena en las ganaderías de la Provincia de Pichincha en Ecuador

Abstract

The ryegrass INIAP Pichincha, and oats INIAP-82 varieties are considered basic components of the forage mixture forage used on farms in Ecuador. Aiming to determine the demand of ryegrass INIAP-Pichincha and oats INIAP-82 in farms of Pichincha province in Ecuador, it was performed the present study. It was used the inductive method, the pre-coded questionnaire as a tool for data collection was applied to each of the sample members, using the stratified random sampling technique, with a Neyman distribution. In the case of farmers in cities such as Mejia, Quito, Rumiñahui, Cayambe and Pedro Moncayo, the total number of surveys was 80. The results showed that the average size of farms in the counties surveyed is 88.7 hectares, of which 61.8 hectares on average, correspond to cultivated pastures with different forage varieties, that still retain 45.8% of natural pastures for agriculture. 32.5% of farms use ryegrass INIAPPichincha and 22.5% use oats INIAP-82. In DPS-EESC, 37.5% of farmers got seed fodder and 40% said that the most important thing to buy seed is the adaptation to agricultural areas. The forage varieties generated by INIAP are known for 86.2% of farmers in the Pichincha province. The unmet demand for forage seed produced and marketed by the DPS-EESC of INIAP in ryegrass INIAP Pichincha is 84 tons, and oats INIAP-82, is 255 tons of seeds.