Parra-Londono, S.; Tigreros, J.A.; Montoya-Correa, C.A. Fruits and Vegetables Yield Stability in Colombia: Identifying Strong National Cropping Systems. Preprints2023, 2023090366. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0366.v1
APA Style
Parra-Londono, S., Tigreros, J.A., & Montoya-Correa, C.A. (2023). Fruits and Vegetables Yield Stability in Colombia: Identifying Strong National Cropping Systems. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0366.v1
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Parra-Londono, S., Jaime Andres Tigreros and Carlos Alberto Montoya-Correa. 2023 "Fruits and Vegetables Yield Stability in Colombia: Identifying Strong National Cropping Systems" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0366.v1
Abstract
In recent years the yield of fruits and vegetables have been decreasing in Colombia, threatening national food security. Analysis of crop production data may lead to identifying cropping systems that have shown better adaptability to changes in climatic and non-climatic factors associated with agricultural production. The open database AGRONET keeps data of the agricultural activities conducted in Colombia, allowing to find the information organized by crops, regions and years; each row of the database registers farm information in Colombia. Aiming to identify resilient crops systems, agricultural data of fruits and vegetables were analyzed. First, trends in crop production were studied by year and locations, detecting the regions and crops with highest yields in the period from 2006 until 2020. Then, mixed linear regression and principal components analysis were applied to elucidate the relation between non-climatic factors and crop yield. In Colombia, vegetable production was more efficient than fruits, observing yields of 10.23 and 13.33 t ha-1, respectively. On the other hand, the Colombian central region showed high yields for vegetables, while for fruits this was exhibited in northern and eastern locations. In the present study, yield variation responded to changes in the location of crop systems, while years had no effect on vegetable production. Furthermore, the price of the agricultural product and the cost of fertilizers were associated with the yield of the analyzed crops systems. In Colombia, carrot, cabbage, tomato papaya and pineapple are resilient crops whose yield increases especially by the regions where they are cultivated.
Keywords
Crops production; Agricultural management; Food security; Open database
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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