Integration of traditional knowledge with scientific knowledge to agricultural management.

Abstract

Work came true in Strengthened Credits’ and Services Cooperative “Enrique Campos Caballeroâ€, with objective evaluating the integration of the ancestral traditions with the scientific knowledge for the endogenous development in the system of cooperative production. The utilized methodology was based on the principle of the Investigation - Action – Participatory through the integration of criteria. Its purpose is to generate knowledge and or to revalue local knowledges from perspective of local and external actors. They summarize the principal results in that the agricultural system developed by the cooperative members presents a set of key elements that they lead him step by step toward a sustainable agriculture, having like premise a knowledge's stock preserved through the time, and enriched with focus agroecological as from the elements of the agricultural modern science.