Implementación de proyectos productivos en seguridad alimentaria para mujeres rurales en el departamento de Boyacá.

Abstract

The advance of the economy in Latin America has counted on the potential development of the agricultural sector, with the advance in the modernization of crops, a large gap has been left with medium and small agricultural producers. For this reason, implement productive projects in food security aimed at rural women in the Pantanitos village of the municipality of Sogamoso, Boyacá; It is a tool with high potential since it empowers the female head of the family to develop new alternatives of economic income in the homes and ensuring the quality of food in the families of the rural sector; through the establishment of crops with high economic interest in the region such as lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and beans. Each family was accompanied, conducting training for the management of crops, pests and fertilization; evaluating the morphometric variables such as plant height, length, width and number of leaves, diameter of the head and pod) in the productive systems; obtaining an average efficiency of 88.57% in the development of training for rural women; the variables evaluated are important to establish more profitable crops given their morphological characteristics; finding that beans is a crop of high nutritional interest, therefore, it is already established as a profitable production system; the lettuce and the broccoli in comparison with the cabbage and cauliflower has a greater development in a less time; Spinach itself, being a short-cycle crop, also provides profitability, however, due to climatic issues, its development was not logo, and it was supported by other professionals from the Sogamoso mayor's office; we promote female empowerment and business creation; establishing the participation of these families in the peasant market.