National System for Research and Transfer of Agricultural Technology SNITTIA (DICTA Honduras)

The Program of the National System for Research and Transfer of Agricultural Technology develops technologies, methodologies and technical recommendations that govern research for the generation of agricultural technology, and its transfer in order to strengthen agricultural extension actions for agricultural producers. As of August 2022, there is the modernization of 6,324 blocks in cultivation areas. Technified areas correspond to corn, beans, rice, sorghum, fodder and pasture crops for bovine animal species; They are located in various municipalities in the departments of Comayagua, Copán; Atlántida, Intibucá, Lempira, El Paraíso and Olancho. Some of the techniques applied include: Agronomic management; Animal health (cattle and poultry); Implementation and use of mineral salt; Conservation of fodder by means of silage in a long vertical bag for corn cultivation; Backyard chicken breeding (Creole chicken: poultry); Use of PH regulators; Planting systems; density; plot selection; pruning; Control of pests and diseases; Use of herbicides; Diffusion of roundup ready hybrid seed (corn); Management of bean varieties: amadeus, red Chortí and Honduras Nutritivo; Management of sesame varieties Igualteco and San Joaquín; Artificial insemination;