Ethnophytopathology: Rice Fields Free of Diseases, from the Culture of Producers in a Nuquí, Chocó-Colombia´s Community

Karen Silva¹ and Jairo Castaño-Zapata^2,

¹Department of Agronomy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá , Colombia

²Department of Agricultural Production, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

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Karen Silva and Jairo Castaño-Zapata. Ethnophytopathology: Rice Fields Free of Diseases, from the Culture of Producers in a Nuquí, Chocó-Colombia´s Community. Research in Plant Sciences. 2014; 2(1):16-21. doi: 10.12691/plant-2-1-4

Abstract

In addition to inquiring about the knowledge of Nuquí producers, the goal of this research was to prove that the fields of healthy rice plants were set in a specific landscape, which is different to the landscape where rice plants managed with fungicides are located; the composition and structure of the landscapes were determined through participant observation, bibliographic resources and photographic records. The study variables were defined in order to perform correspondence and conglomerate/cluster analysis, both univariate and bivariate. There are two clusters, Nuquí and Lerida, and the index number of different species for Nuquí-Chocó was higher compared with that of Lerida-Tolima, which indicates that Nuquí producers usually establish their rice fields among vegetable species such as weeds, shrubbery, and trees and preserved a very particular structure of landscape, allowing them to maintain their crops free of diseases.

Keywords:
biodiversity knowledge customs landscape healthy plants

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