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ORIGINAL ARTICLE / ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL
PARTICIPATION OF THE AGRONOMY CAREER IN THE
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TRINIDAD, CUBA
PARTICIPACIÓN DE LA CARRERA DE AGRONOMÍA EN EL DESARROLLO
LOCAL DEL MUNICIPIO TRINIDAD, CUBA
Delvis Valdés-Zayas
1
*& Gretter Polo-Conesa
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ABSTRACT
Among the main latent dif culties that constitute a current brake on the achievement of the proposed objectives to
achieve food sovereignty in the Municipality of Trinidad, Cuba, based on respect and conservation of the environment,
the following can be mentioned: poor agrotechnical management, indiscriminate use of agricultural inputs, lack of
knowledge of producers and professionals of sustainable production technologies, soil degradation, lack of knowledge
of botany and plant improvement of frequently planted crops, poor quality or insuf cient availability of the gamic
and agamic seeds used, lack of knowledge and violation of current agrarian legislation, agricultural territorial planning
outside the real context presented by the municipality, among others. Elements that in one way or another have to do
with the insuf cient training of professionals and workers in the agricultural sector in the territory. T is work proposes a
design and implementation of training actions in the agricultural sector of the territory that allow achieving sustainability
standards therein, based on joint action between the Municipal University Center of Trinidad and the Municipal
Delegation of Agriculture, already exposing the f rst results of this training, managing to contribute to the territory the
f rst 53 professionals trained in the version of the Diploma in Sustainable Agriculture, another result obtained is that
several Agricultural Engineers have graduated, whose Diploma Work Topics have been in charge of solving problems
that prevent the development of agriculture at the municipal level, achieving the publication of some of these works in
high-impact magazines at an international level, among others, which contribute to increasing work ef ciency in the
agricultural sector of the territory. thus contributing to the local development of the territory and obtaining recognition
of the research and contributions made in the territory at an international level.
Keywords
: ef ectiveness
–
elevation – strategy – territory – Training
1*
Department of Development. Trinidad Municipal University Center. Faculty of Agriculture and Livestock. University ¨José
Martí Pérez¨ of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. valdeszdelvis@gmail.com / delvis@uniss.edu.cu
2
Department of Development. Trinidad Municipal University Center. Faculty of Agriculture and Livestock. University ¨José
Martí Pérez¨ of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Delvis Valdés-Zayas:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0756-2896
Gretter Polo-Conesa:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2753-8591
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RESUMEN
Entre las principales difcultades latentes y que constituyen un freno actual para el logro de los objetivos propuestos para
alcanzar la soberanía alimentaria del Municipio Trinidad, Cuba, sobre la base del respeto y conservación del medio ambiente, se
pueden mencionar las siguientes: defciente manejo agrotécnico, uso indiscriminado de insumos agrícolas, desc
onocimiento de
los productores y profesionales de las tecnologías de producción sostenible, degradación de los suelos, desconocimiento
de la botánica y ftomejoramiento de los cultivos frecuentemente sembrados, mala calidad o insufciente disponibilidad
de las semillas gámicas y agámicas utilizadas, desconocimiento y violación de la legislación agraria vigente, planifcación
territorial agropecuaria fuera del contexto real que presenta el municipio, entre otros. Elementos que de una u otra forma
tienen que ver con la insufciente capacitación de los profesionales y trabajadores del sector agropecuario en el territorio.
El presente trabajo propone un diseño e implementación de acciones de capacitación en el sector agropecuario del
territorio que permitan alcanzar estándares de sostenibilidad en el mismo, a partir de una acción conjunta entre el Centro
Universitario Municipal de Trinidad y la Delegación Municipal de Agricultura, exponiéndose ya los primeros resultados
de esta capacitación, logrando aportar al territorio los primeros 53 profesionales formados en la versión del Diplomado
en Agricultura Sostenible, otro resultado, obtenido es que se han graduado varios Ingenieros Agrónomos, cuyos Temas
de Trabajo de Diploma han estado en función de resolver problemas que impiden el desarrollo de la agricultura a nivel
de municipio, logrando la publicación de algunos de esos trabajos en revista de alto impacto a nivel internacional,
entre otros, los cuales contribuyen a la elevación de la efciencia del trabajo en el sector agropecuario del territorio
contribuyendo de esta forma al desarrollo local del territorio y obteniendo un reconocimiento de las investigaciones y los
aportes realizados en el territorio a nivel internacional.
Palabras clave
: Capacitación – efectividad – elevación – estrategia – territorio
INTRODUCTION
Strategies are general programs of action that carry
with them commitments of emphasis and resources to
implement a basic mission. Tey are patterns of objectives,
which have been conceived and initiated in such a way as
to give the entity a unifed direction (Koontz, 1991).
Humanity is at a turning point in its history. It is faced
with great disparities between nations and within nations,
with worsening poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, and
with the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on
which our well-being depends. However, by integrating
environmental and development concerns and paying
more attention, basic needs can be met, living standards
for all can be raised, ecosystems can be better protected
and managed, and a more secure and prosperous future
can be achieved. No single nation can achieve these goals
alone, but together we can achieve them in a global
partnership for sustainable development” (Cabrera,
2013).
In the Roadmap derived from the World Higher
Education Conference held in Barcelona in 2022, it was
stated that:
“Higher Education Institutions have three great social
missions: to produce knowledge through scientifc
research, to educate people, in the broad sense of the
word, paying special attention to the knowledge and
skills necessary for professional life, and to be socially
responsible...” (UNESCO, 2022).
Each territory has specifc particularities that allow it to move
in one direction or another more or less rapidly Maqueiras
(2021).Tus, considering planning as the primary basis
for development, it is necessary to speak of a new type
of planning, called ecological, environmental or strategic,
which can be conceived as: “Te instrument for planning
and programming the use of the territory, productive
activities, the management of human settlements and the
development of society, in congruence with the natural
potential of the land”, sustainable use of natural and
human resources, and the protection and quality of the
environment. Tis idea is cemented in the possibility of
thinking and creating the future from the knowledge and
valuation of the present and its articulation to the past,
and should be understood, then, as a public management
tool to control, promote and direct contemporary social
systems, articulated in their geoecological sustenance base
(Valdés & Suárez, 2018).
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Trinidad, as a territory populated since pre-Columbian
times and with more than half a millennium of existence
since its foundation as a village that early reached the
category of city, has treasured physical-geographical
particularities and its historical and economic evolution,
which make it an ideal scenario for the development of
tourism as the main support for its development (CAM
Trinidad, 2023).
But the transition from an economy that was sustained
for centuries by the sugar cane activity to another that
requires a vision and therefore a more holistic study and
use of all the potential of the territory such as tourism,
represents a challenge that its human resources are in
the obligation to face because it has identifed by the
government authorities a bank of problems, where one
of the priorities is the satisfaction of the growing food
needs of a demographic nucleus in constant expansion,
facing for it a series of difculties within the agricultural
infrastructure that it has, to be able to give a solution to
the existing problems, many of them are in the obligation
to face, One of the priorities is the satisfaction of the
growing food needs of a demographic nucleus in constant
expansion, facing a series of difculties within its own
agricultural infrastructure, to be able to solve the existing
problems, many of these difculties have been generated
by the actions of man himself in his historical desire to
provide food to his fellow countrymen (Valdés
et al
.,
2023).
Among the main latent difculties that constitute a
current obstacle to achieving the proposed objectives
for territorial food sovereignty based on respect for and
conservation of the environment are the following:
poor agrotechnical management, indiscriminate use of
agricultural inputs, lack of knowledge of producers and
professionals of sustainable production technologies,
soil degradation, lack of knowledge of botany and
phytotechnics of frequently planted crops, poor quality or
insufcient availability of gamic and agamic seeds used,
ignorance and violation of current agrarian legislation,
territorial agricultural planning outside the real context
presented by the municipality, among others (Valdés,
2019).
Among the main latent difculties that constitute a
current obstacle to achieving the proposed objectives
for territorial food sovereignty based on respect for and
conservation of the environment are the following:
poor agrotechnical management, indiscriminate use of
agricultural inputs, lack of knowledge of producers and
professionals of sustainable production technologies,
soil degradation, lack of knowledge of botany and
phytotechnics of frequently planted crops, poor quality or
insufcient availability of gamic and agamic seeds used,
ignorance and violation of current agrarian legislation,
territorial agricultural planning outside the real context
presented by the municipality, among others (Valdés,
2019).
It is also correct to highlight the critical situation of
the coastal strip of Casilda which presents a strong
contamination of its waters by human action that has
turned this area into a highly dangerous focus emitting
diseases that signifcantly afect the health of the
population (PGOU, 2018).
An important part of the aforementioned limitations are
the cumulative result of a predominant ideology within
the professionals who have directed the productive
process and logically of the producers themselves, in
the use of a conventional agricultural model, which as
has been handled previously, has fallen into complete
crisis, not adjusting to the current precepts that move the
agricultural development at a global and national level,
nor to the elementary desire for the preservation of our
own species (Hernández
et al
., 2023).
Te University, the main center in charge of managing
the formation, training and permanent improvement of
these resources, has to undertake important actions to
encourage them to undertake in a productive, rational
and scientifcally based manner the great tasks that will
allow them to creatively integrate the management and
protection of their agricultural resources, urban and
territorial planning, the efciency of productive activities
in correspondence with the updating of the country’s
economic model and in general, the environmental
sustainability of tourism development, even considering
the new forms of management, for which the
environmental issue is identifed as one of the most
important concerns of mankind; Te boom that this issue
has taken in recent years is related to the intensifcation
of numerous problems at all scales, which afect society in
an increasingly harmful way (Law on Food Sovereignty
and Nutritional Security, 2022).
It is necessary to promote a change in the productive
mentality, through the search for and adoption of
sustainable and harmoniously integrated agricultural
production techniques that constitute alternatives
to traditional models, and achieve an increase in the
production of healthy food in the quantities necessary
to satisfy the demanding demands of tourism. It is also
necessary to disseminate more widely the variety and
richness of the tangible and intangible heritage and
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promote its proper management and interpretation for its
conversion into tourism products that show the richness
and diversity of the culture of the municipality and the
country (González, 2007).
From training, science and innovation, we continue
to contribute to the implementation of Municipal and
Provincial Development Strategies, local innovation
systems, self-management and sustainability of
municipalities, with the participation of Municipal
University Centers (CUM) as main actors in knowledge
management, with special emphasis on capacity building,
which is evident in the increase in actions at the territorial
level. Tere are dozens of local development projects,
technologies certifed and absorbed by the municipalities.
Te increase in R&D&i projects that contribute to the
development of the territories is notable, including
several of international scope (Díaz-Canel, 2022).
Tis study is aimed at the so-called long-term solutions,
and proposes to carry out an investigation on alternatives
that can contribute to train, qualify and overcome
professionals capable of assuming the challenges of
sustainable development in the construction of the
economic model to be built in Cuban society, including
those incorporated to the non-state management forms. It
is also articulated with the Municipal Development Plan,
as a strategy to strengthen the municipality and at the
same time improve the use and rational exploitation of
its agricultural and fshing resources in a results-oriented
local management framework.
To design and implement alternatives of formation,
training and improvement, in the agricultural sector of
the Trinidad municipality, Cuba, from the university
and in consonance with the real needs of the territory, in
contribution to the theoretical and practical strengthening
of local development in the Trinidad Municipality.
MATERIALS AND METHOD
In order to achieve the objectives of this research,
several stages were outlined. Te frst stage consisted of
characterizing the agricultural sector of the municipality
of Trinidad, Cuba. For the university to be a protagonist
in the process of social development, it must integrate
from a systemic conception its substantive processes:
academic, labor and research and break its walls with
genuine extension processes that instruct while educating
from latent and felt needs in their diferent contexts
of action and project their activities: Terefore, the
university of the territory will bring together the existing
human capital and will do so by taking advantage of its
own and external resources, so as to produce the necessary
synergy between all stakeholders and interested parties, it
is necessary to align strategies, knowledge and priorities
of development with human welfare.
Stage 1. Characterization of the agricultural sector in
the Municipality of Trinidad, Cuba (CAM Trinidad,
2023; Sánchez, 2023).
Te Municipality has a territorial area of 116,747.37 ha
and of them 60,703.72 ha are agricultural, including
13,288.2 ha of temporary crops, 14,327.5 ha of
permanent crops and 44,976.99 ha of livestock. It also
has a non-agricultural area of 44,154.68ha, of which
43,151.22 ha are dedicated to forest plantations. Te Idle
Land Fund available at the end of 2021 was 1,787.48
ha, a fgure that was higher in previous years and has
decreased due to the fact that today there are a total of
1,745 tenants in the territory, of which 286 are property
owners and usufructuaries by diferent Resolutions 1459.
Te economic base of this Sector in the territory is
supported by: Trinidad Agroforestry Company with 4
UEB: UEB Cofee Beneft: Felicidad, Seibabo and La
23, UEB Valle de los Ingenios, UEB Urban Farm, UEB
Assurance.
As a result of the low availability of areas with irrigation
systems (0.0003 ha), which means that almost all crops are
grown in dry land, together with the intense drought that
has afected the municipality in recent years, the levels of
production and collection of agricultural products, which
is why it is necessary to increase the areas under irrigation,
since there is potential in terms of supply sources, which
can be exploited with appropriate technologies, which
could reverse the current results.
Stage 2. Study and adaptation of the research and
training objectives of the Agronomy Career of the
Municipal University Center of Trinidad in terms of
local development.
For the fulfllment of this stage, a transdisciplinary group
of the Municipal University Center of Trinidad was
created, belonging to the Agronomy career of this center,
among which were Agronomists, Foresters, Veterinarians,
among others, who together with specialists of the
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agricultural system in this municipality, undertook
the task of analyzing the Local Development Strategy,
Tey were given the task of analyzing the existing Local
Development Strategy in the municipality, and under the
care and monitoring of the Municipal Administration
Council (CAM), after knowing the 6 strategic lines
shown in the strategy, consensus was reached that the
strategic line number one, under the title: “Production
and food with science”, ft perfectly with the intention of
the Agronomy Career of the Municipal University Center
to contribute to the support of the local development of
the municipality, being able as a university to respond to
the demands and needs that this line demanded for its
execution.
Stage 3. Diagnosis of the agricultural sector of the
Municipality of Trinidad.
At this stage the transdisciplinary group created and
mentioned above was called with the task of conducting
a diagnosis of the agricultural sector of the municipality
of Trinidad, in the period between January 2015
and December of that year, covering 100% of the
existing productive forms in the sector, and 100% of
the agricultural, livestock and forestry territory of the
municipality, for this purpose three work teams were
created, which would cover the entire territory, To this
end, three work teams were created, which would cover
the entire territory, gathering the threats, opportunities,
weaknesses and strengths that existed in each productive
form, and in each component of the agricultural system
of the municipality, that is, agriculture, forestry and
livestock, then a work table was set up where by analysis
and weighting the weaknesses, threats, opportunities and
strengths that were common and those that were not
were established, establishing a general diagnosis of the
sector for this period of time in this municipality.
Stage 4. Establishment of the action plan by the
Municipal University Center in order to contribute to
local development.
Finally, and bearing in mind the weaknesses and threats
found in the diagnosis, most of which were directly
or indirectly related to training problems and low
application of science and technology, an action plan
was created and implemented between 2016 and 2019
to solve these threats and weaknesses, which made it
possible to put the potential of the specialists of the
Agronomy Career of the Municipal University Center of
Trinidad in terms of training and d solve many of the
problems detected, in addition, all the research potential
of the career was involved in order to solve some of the
problems that appeared in the diagnosis that prevented
progress in the aspirations of the territory of a sustainable
local development. In 2019, several results of the
implementation of the action plan began to be obtained,
appearing results that allowed to begin to evaluate the
impact that the participation of the Agronomy career had
had on local development, that work continues, and the
impact is monitored until today.
Ethical Aspects
: Tis work responds to one of the
lines of research of the Agronomy Career of the Faculty
of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Sancti
Spiritus, which in turn is in full consonance with the
Local Development Strategy in force in the Municipality
of Trinidad, contributes new aspects to knowledge in
the still little explored topic of the participation of
the diferent university courses existing in municipal
university centers, and specifcally the Agronomy course
in local development. Tis work is guaranteed by its
tutors and institutions that represent that it does not
constitute plagiarism of another presented, both in Cuba
and internationally.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Diagnosis of the current situation of the agricultural
sector in the Municipality of Trinidad carried out
by specialists of the Trinidad Municipal University
Center.
Te diagnosis was the tool used by the specialists of
the Municipal University Center of Trinidad to obtain
data that would allow us to know the real situation of
the agricultural system of the Trinidad Municipality in
the evaluated period, allowing us to know the risks and
opportunities that exist in the agricultural sector of the
municipality and that directly afect the functioning of
this sector.
Te strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that
the agricultural sector has at the time of introducing a
scientifc result are framed below.
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Strengths
Existence of the science and innovation system
in the province (Trinidad Municipal University
Center, Trinidad Plant Health Research Station,
Entomophagous and Entomopathogen Production
Center, County, Trinidad).
High number of qualifed researchers in the
agricultural sector.
Integrated provincial strategy for science, technology
and technological innovation.
Existence of areas available for agricultural production.
Beginning of a process of assimilation of scientifc-
technical results for low-input systems obtained by
research centers.
Existence of various forms of production in the
agricultural sector with great productive potential in
the Trinidadian territory.
Existence of permanent sources of food, vegetable and
fruit production during all seasons of the year.
Existence in some of the productive forms of advanced
technologies that can promote an increase in the
production of vegetables, viands and fruit trees.
Existence in some of the productive forms of osseous
facilities that can be reconditioned for the installation
of the necessary technological equipment in the mini-
industries.
Established producers, with a high level of relevance
and knowledge in the art of producing vegetables and
fruits.
Proximity of the productive forms to the main
population centers and companies of the territory.
Weaknesses
Insufcient introduction into productive practice
of the scientifc results of the agricultural research
centers.
Low availability of material and fnancial resources in
the agricultural sector of the territory.
Lack of continuity of scientifc results (scientifc
results that have been shelved).
Lack of visibility, will and creativity of many of the
cadres that manage the agricultural sector in the
territory in the need to implement new technologies
that allow new productive options.
Defcient contracting process of agricultural
productions between the productive forms and the
Municipal Collection.
Delinquent payments for contracted productions
between the productive forms and the Municipal
Collection.
Existence of osseous lands in the municipality’s land
fund.
Poor conception of the territorial planning of
vegetable production.
Outdated soil fertility studies of the territory.
Te existence in the Municipal Direction of
Agriculture of an incomplete and inefcient human
resources training strategy.
Opportunities
Te country’s need for import substitution.
Priority in the country towards innovation issues.
Defnition of priority research lines in the country
(food production, energy saving, import substitution).
Interest on the part of the Provincial Assembly of
People’s Power and the PCC, for innovation issues
and introduction of scientifc results.
Sufcient natural resources for the introduction of
agricultural results.
Increased demand for a variety of packaged vegetable
products by the sectors: self-employed, tourism,
business and population of this municipality.
Political will of the authorities of the territory to create
new productive opportunities in the agricultural
sector of the territory, which at the same time,
allow an increase in the productions and variety of
agricultural products.
Existence of available labor in the territory to meet
the demands of the agricultural sector and to face any
new investment in the sector itself.
Existence of a Municipal University Center that can
meet the training demands of the agricultural sector
in the territory.
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Treats
Te economic and commercial blockade is maintained.
Unstable international scenario (world crisis).
Increase in the prices of raw materials and materials
on the market.
Efects of climate change.
Fluctuation of the labor force in the territory.
When an analysis and evaluation of the results
shown in the diagnosis is made, it is obtained that
many of the weaknesses and threats shown by the
agricultural sector in the municipality are directly
or indirectly related to problems in the training of
its human resources, which limits the achievement
of more efcient processes, preventing the desired
sustainability of the sector.
Te following is a breakdown of the Action Plan
designed to provide a solution to the training problem
that has arisen, showing actions for each stage, i.e.
initial, diagnosis, intervention and evaluation, but
due to the format required for this presentation and
in order to save space, only the diagnosis stages will be
addressed (Table 1).
Table 1.
Action Plan designed to provide a solution to the training problem.
Diagnosis.
Selection of diagnostic tools and techniques
to determine the current status of the
company.
2015
Research
group.
Determination of
the starting
situation
Ejecution.
Training and research actions to resolve
threats and weaknesses detected in the
diagnosis.
2016-2019
Research
group.
Monitoring of the
implementation
process.
Evaluation.
Evaluation of the results obtained in the
diferent diagnoses to plan a work strategy.
2019
Research
group.
Measurement and
comparison of re-
sults obtained.
Evaluation.
Evaluation of the impacts on the
preparation of the leaders and workers of
the companies, the self-employed sector
and population centers.
2019
Research
group.
Measurement and
comparison of re-
sults obtained.
Evaluation.
Evaluation of the impacts on the
preparation of the teachers - tutors who are
part of the study
2019
Research
group.
Measurement and
comparison of re-
sults obtained.
Evaluation.
Assessment of the impacts on the
preparation of tutors for master’s degrees
and diploma work
2019
Research
group.
Measurement and
comparison of re-
sults obtained.
Evaluation
Evaluation of improvements in
environmental quality levels in the CUM.
2019
Research
group.
Measurement and
comparison of re-
sults obtained.
Results obtained to date with the implementation of
the action plan.
Te frst results obtained from the implementation of the
strategy are as follows:
Completion of a Diploma Course in Sustainable Agricul-
ture: In this Diploma Course, directives and workers of
the diferent productive forms in the agricultural sector
of the territory participated, achieving a graduation of 53
graduates, who with the presentation of their theses pro-
posed solutions to diferent problems of the agricultural
sector of the municipality.
Postgraduate Phytotechnology Course: Tis course was
considered a postgraduate and training course, with
the participation of professionals from the agricultural
sector, but also workers who did not have a higher level
of education, achieving 20 graduates.
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Training in basic agronomy topics for the Head of
the Training Department of the Enrique Villegas del
Algarrobo Agronomy Polytechnic.
A postgraduate course in Techniques and Principles of
Management to the managers and workers of the UBP
Cigar Factory Juan de Mata Reyes, in 2018 with the
graduation of 15 students in the Postgraduate modality
and 5 in the Training Course modality.
Advice on agricultural issues to the Local Development
Group, as well as participation as methodological advisors in
the First Strategic Line of the Local Development Strategy.
Delivery of postgraduate courses on Food Sovereignty to
Mayors and main cadres of the Municipal Assembly of
People’s Power.
Te culmination of studies of 10 students in the Agronomy
Career, course 2023, in the modality of Regular Course
by Meetings, who will defend their Diploma Work in
option to the title of Agronomist Engineers in topics that
respond to the current needs of the agricultural sector of
the territory, propitiating the search for a sovereign and
sustainable territory in the feeding of its population.
Te generalization of one of the scientifc investigations,
carried out by students and professors in a company
producing bioinputs in Costa Rica, see Annex 1.
Te delivery of training courses to Social Fighters in the
Socialist Agroecological Training Center Indio Rangel
of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on issues
related to Agroecology, between 2020 and 2021, achieving
the training of more than 600 fghters, which through the
Francisco de Miranda Front, became multipliers of these
issues nationwide.
Te training of the main cadres of the Francisco de
Miranda Front, in the sister Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela on management issues, here was jointly
developed a Management Strategy for the Socialist
Agroecological Training Center Indio Rangel, which was
published in an international indexed magazine, located
in the frst level of the Ranking, see the list of publications
that appeared in these results.
Te visibility and recognition of the scientifc research
undertaken by the Agronomy Career of the Municipal
University Center of Trinidad at national and
international level has been achieved, an example of this
is the achievement of the publication of this strategy in
an international journal indexed in the frst place of the
Ranking. See list of publications appearing in these results.
Te visibility and recognition of the scientifc research
undertaken by the Agronomy Career of the Centro
Universitario Municipal de Trinidad has been achieved
at national and international level, an example of this
is the achievement of the publication of this strategy in
an international journal indexed in the frst place of the
Ranking. See list of publications appearing in these results.
Two professors belonging to the career are currently
completing their Master’s degree in Agricultural Sciences,
attached to the José Martí Pérez University of Sancti Spiritus.
List of publications on agriculture and livestock in the
Municipality of Trinidad in frst and second level indexed
journals (Table 2):
Table 2.
List of publications on agriculture and livestock in the Municipality of Trinidad.
Title of publication and journalYear of the publication
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
efect on cofee berry
borer in the Algarrobo locality, Trinidad, Cuba.
Centro Agrícola
2016
Strategic model for the Agricultural Production
Cooperative 13 de Marzo, Trinidad, Cuba.
Revista Científca Agroecosistemas
2018
Preparation of a Manual for the Organization of
the Work of the Nucleus of Socialist Agroecological
Training ¨Indio Rangel¨ (NUFASIR) Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela
.
International Journal of Science, Technology and Society
2021
(Continue Table 2)
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Infuence of the Agronomy Carrer in local development
Te Biologist (Lima). Vol. 22, N
º
1, ene - jun 2024
Accion of planifcation in Te CPA ¨13 Of March¨,
Trinidad City, Cuba.
International Journal of Advanced Technology & Science
Research
2021
Legal Status Until 2016 of the Land Fund, Labor,
Salary and Performance in the Agricultural Sector of
the Trinidad Municipality.
International Journal of Science, Technology and Society
2023
(Continue Table 2)
As can be seen in the previous table, it has been possible
to output some of the results obtained in the scientifc
research carried out in the Agronomy program of the
Municipal University Center of Trinidad, either through
undergraduate or postgraduate training actions, an
example, of this is the publication made in 2016, in
Centro Agrícola Magazine, a magazine that is indexed
in top-level databases, and shows the results obtained
in a Diploma Work in the control of the main pest that
Today it causes damage to the cofee plantations in the
Trinidad municipality. All of the above contributes to a
vision of continuous training of our professionals, from
the connection of our undergraduate students with112
careers and 64 Higher Technician programs, with study
plans increasingly aligned with the 2030 National
Development Plan and from a more comprehensive,
fexible and diverse postgraduate training (UNESCO,
2024).
Te results of the aforementioned research have had
a great impact not only at the national level, but also
internationally, the above can be corroborated in the
request made by the Company Bio Control S.A of Costa
Rica (2019), which requested the main author of this
work the formal authorization of the results obtained in
this research to be used as scientifc support in its research
work and production of biocontrollers.
Author contributions
:
CRediT (Contributor Roles
Taxonomy)
DVZ
= Delvis Valdés-Zayas
GPC
= Gretter Polo-Conesa
Conceptualization
: DVZ, GPC
Data curation
: DVZ, GPC
Formal Analysis
: DVZ, GPC
Funding acquisition
: DVZ, GPC
Investigation
: DVZ, GPC
Methodology
: DVZ, GPC
Project administration
: DVZ, GPC
Resources
: DVZ, GPC
Software
: DVZ, GPC
Supervision
: DVZ, GPC
Validation
: DVZ, GPC
Visualization
: DVZ, GPC
Writing – original draft
: DVZ, GPC
Writing – review & editing
: DVZ, GPC
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