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Producción Agroecológica de Papa Criolla Solanum phureja en Agricultura Urbana

Daniel Andrés Vega Castro

Cadernos de Agroecologia

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An explorative, descriptive study evaluated "papa criolla" (Solanum phureja) production in an urban context using double-bottom HDPE containers and agroecological techniques, with descriptive statistics and dispersion analysis applied to the resulting data. Average production reached 528 g per plant, which the authors compare favorably to average production figures for Colombia as a whole.