ADOPTION OF Brachiaria brizantha CIAT 6780 CV MARANDÚ GRASS IN FOUR MUNICIPALITIES OF MATAGALPA NICARAGUA

Abstract

Livestock sector is an very important item into the Nicaraguan society, it is mainly based in grasses and forages which are reason why is a fragile sector facing changing in herd distribution, bad livestock practices and climate change; as an alternative to improve the production systems a lot of research in grasses from Brachiaria genus has been done, however, with no adoption of them all this effort is worthless; this study identified that the most important socio-economic factors in the municipalities of Matiguás, Rio Blanco, Muy Muy y Paiwas for Marandú grass adoption are: Presence of projects in the area, topography, drought tolerance of the grass, technical services and schooling and where all those factors converge the probability of adoption is 95%. To get these results 130 interviews were done to farmers into the mentioned municipalities and data were analyzed by a logit model where independent variable was adoption and dependent variables were group in farmer characteristics, system characteristics, grass characteristics and external factors.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/calera.v13i20.1633