Bagging technique: water collection system for planting in residual humidity used by producers in Masiaca, Sonora

Abstract

In the southeast of Sonora, as in most of the state, due to its arid and semi-arid conditions, the land is unproductive without small or large irrigation works. Where economic conditions are limited, producers are forced to develop techniques that help overcome the erratic availability of water, especially for irrigation purposes. That is why the Mayo Indians and private producers of the community of Masiaca, Sonora, have developed a technique to harvest water from the intermittent streams near their plots, and once the soil is ready, they can establish crops of their interest, thereby achieving acceptable harvests of corn, chickpeas, sorghum and safflower.

Notwithstanding the above, these producers face a series of problems mainly related to the scarcity of rain; the lack of credit support for the construction of the required works or the maintenance of the same; the lack of profitability of the crops established there, the abandonment of the cultivated lands, the erosion of knowledge, etc.

The following conclusions can be drawn from the analysis of the work: The bagging technique is viable if there is abundant rainfall in October with the presence of cyclones; the acceptable yields obtained in the crops established there are largely due to the contribution of organic matter obtained from the floods; the organizational levels observed there are simple and of an operational nature.