The farming information system in La Frailesca to promote innovation of technologies

Abstract

As a metholodogical work tool to promote the innovation of farming technologies, the Agricultural Knowledge Information System and Rural Development (AKIS-RD) or Farming Information System (SAI) was proposed in the region in the state of Chiapas known as La Frailesca, where promoting and recipient actors organized themselves and worked under a market principles, through agreements to promote the innovation of technologies linked to the planting of maize. The results, based on a sample of five offices, that are accredited as PROCREA agents before the Banco de Mexico (BM), 52 organizations and 194 farmers, indicate that there are signs of these organizational dynamics being an agricultural Information system. However, the market principles, marked by the promoters of the strategy, only privilege the added value of money, yet there is no evidence of complete training or education programs that empower the recipient actors. The rearrangement of the actors' activities, the tasks shared between the public and private, the organization to promote and receive technology and services favors a greater participation of social groups and promotes technological development, without it being considered an innovation.