Validation of the EcoMic® mycorrhizal product through rural extension in Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba

Abstract

The research was developed from 2018 to 2020, with the objective of validating the level of knowledge and feasibility of the inoculation of the commercial product EcoMic® in Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba provinces, supported by theoretical and empirical research methods with the applied qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that the students of the Agricultural Polytechnic Institutes (IPA) in the fourth year of the Agronomy Career and the Master of Sustainable Agrarian Development (DAS) have superior knowledge regarding the use of biofertilizers and the EcoMic® product, and to a lesser extent number of individual producers. Fifteen demonstration areas were established in eight agricultural crops and 14 workshops were held with producers and students in four municipalities of Guantanamo province and one municipality of Santiago de Cuba province.