Determining factors in cattle raising in the Paucarcolla district - Puno, Peru

Abstract

Cattle production is conducted by small producers with an incidence of family labor and high heterogeneity in the distribution of productive resources and with low productivity in cattle exploitation. The objectives of the study were to characterize production and determine the main factors that influence bovine production. The deductive method and type of correlational and explanatory research were used; the data analyzes were developed osino statistical techniques (measures of central tendency and dispersion); For the analysis of the incidence of the factors in production, the multiple regression model was taken into account and for its estimation Ordinary Least Squares. The results indicate 10,232 cattle distributed among 2,029 production units, each producer has an average of 3.12 hectares. of land, 05 bovines and 3 members per household, likewise the bovine production function of the Paucarcolla district indicates that the explanatory variables (production factors) are relevant at 5% significance, the Coefficient of Determination R² registers 0.48, which which states that 48% of the variation in cattle production is explained by independent variables or productive factors such as land resources, cultivated pastures, improved bovine capital, educational level of producers, family workforce and technology; also the model shows the existence of joint dependency in the model whose Fc = 265.14 of significance; the parameters of the function are statistically significant, that is, different from zero and the data are consistent with the production function.

Keywords: Characterization, cattle, production and factors.