Characterization of rural extension workers in Mexico a contribution from the correspondence analysis

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  • Victor Manuel Santos Chávez Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Montecillo. Carretera México-Texcoco km 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. CP. 56230 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4803-8756
  • María de Jesús Santiago Cruz Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Montecillo. Carretera México-Texcoco km 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. CP. 56230 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-8094
  • Miguel Ángel Martínez Damián Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Montecillo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1215-7406
  • Vinicio Horacio Santoyo Cortés Universidad Autónoma Chapingo-Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial. Carretera México-Texcoco km 38.5, Chapingo, Texcoco, Estado de México. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-1724
  • Adolfo Guadalupe Álvarez Macías Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco-Departamento de Producción Agrícola y Animal. Calzada del Hueso núm. 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, México. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8650-0641

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v12i8.2893

Keywords:

agricultural training, rural development, rural education, rural typologies

Abstract

Rural innovation remains a crucial element to solve problems of low productivity in agriculture and rural poverty, rural extension constitutes an instrument of agricultural policy that promotes innovation through its extension workers. In order to characterize the profile of these actors, a typology was made based on their professional attributes and the problems they face. The survey of extension workers of the monitoring and evaluation system of the rural extension policy 2016-2017 was used, it collected information in ten states of the republic and its sample size was 609 questionnaires. The methodology used multivariate statistical procedures, at first, the correspondence analysis estimated principal dimensions, later clusters were constructed to define the typology. Three strata were detected, which grouped the predominant problem and area of the professional studies, this allows a better understanding of the characteristics of the extension workers and establish strategies for solving problems in the extension policy focused on the knowledge of the capacities and conditions of one of its main actors.

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2021-12-07

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Santos Chávez, Victor Manuel, María de Jesús Santiago Cruz, Miguel Ángel Martínez Damián, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo Cortés, and Adolfo Guadalupe Álvarez Macías. 2021. “Characterization of Rural Extension Workers in Mexico a Contribution from the Correspondence Analysis”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Agrícolas 12 (8). México, ME:1445-57. https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v12i8.2893.

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