2024-07-10 01:41:31
The Mayan milpa is a cultivation system that has the risk of disappearing, Since most of the people who are dedicated to its preservation are older adults of the original towns.
The new generations have little interest in replicating this ancestral method of self-cultivationas warned by the head of Natural Resources of the Scientific Research Center of Yucatan (CICY), Miguel Angel Fernandez Barrera.
The specialist explained that young people are not interested in dedicating themselves to the primary sector of production, because they are looking for better income. In this sense, the cornfield is no longer one of their last options.
Fernández Barrera recalled that ancestral knowledge practices such as the Mayan milpa are not only a driving force that impacts the local economy and the food safetybut at the same time it has effects on agricultural systems to combat the evident impacts of climate change, phenomena such as intense droughts that contrast with seasons of abundant rainfall and increasingly frequent periods of more numerous or intense tropical cyclones.
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2024-07-10 01:41:31