California Agriculture (Mar 1991)

Low-input technology proves viable for limited-resource farmers in Salinas Valley

  • Miguel Altieri,
  • Javier A. Trujillo,
  • Marta A. Astier,
  • Paul Gersper,
  • Wilhelmus A. Bakx

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.v045n02p20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 45, no. 2
pp. 20 – 23

Abstract

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Low-input farming techniques offered energy-saving, cost-effective alternatives for resource-poor farmers of Mexican origin in the Salinas Valley. Most of these farmers currently manage small acreages using intensive vegetable cropping systems and high-input technologies.