Validation of five bean varieties with high contents of Fe (iron ) and Zn (zinc ) , to incorporate in school meals in municipalities of dry runner Olancho, Honduras, 2015

Abstract

This work tries to discern the essential quantitative and qualitative aspects that we must analyze when we study the theme "School Snack" knowing that one of the objectives of this program is to improve the nutrition of children. However, we can not talk about nutrition if we do not know the nutritional quality that the foods present. Annex to the nutritional problem found
we submerge more and more product of the disturbances caused by the climatic change, this situation today tries to increase the alimentary insecurity of the region limiting the agricultural and forestry development, if we add the alarming degradation of the natural resources we find that the future of the settlers due to the serious imbalance in the region and especially in the municipality of Silca department of Olancho, Honduras. The main idea was to introduce the
zone bean varieties with high content of Iron and Zinc in addition to other essential nutrients for human development, trying in the first place to consolidate productive areas that can be used in a rotating manner and help to contain the demand for healthy food in the school lunch and on the other hand the invasive pressure on the water reserve since in the last times the migratory agriculture has intensified. Our results manage to identify that the varieties of bean (nut 428) is the one that best behaves agronomically and which is the one that supplies the best nutritional conditions, in this way we manage to promote alternatives that allow to mitigate theexisting food disorder.