Evaluation of ecosystem service of provisioning in Cocoa farms from Baracoa Municipality

Abstract

The study was carried out in three communities of the Baracoa municipality (Paso de Cuba, Jamal and San Luis), in areas belonging to the Agroforestry Company and Coco. They are served by producers that are associated to the different productive forms (UBPC, CCS). To evaluate the provisioning ecosystem service, in the study, the productive data of the different producers between 2014 and 2018 were collected, to be statistically analyzed, which were studied by means of a conglomerate analysis.  For the analysis, the statistical software Biodiversity Pro was used on Windows where the most productive farm groups were identified. The result showed four groups where the producers Delfino, Mena, Llacer and San German obtained de best results. Another important result was that the producers did not take full advantage of the lines (food, raw material, medicines, water supply, wood and firewood). They only take advantage of the raw material and foods.