Characterization of traditional knowledge about wild mushrooms groceries, in the community of Metlatónoc, Guerrero, Mexico.

Abstract

The objective of the present work was to
characterize the traditional knowledge from the
point of obvious etnomicológico of the collectors on
the use of the main wild edible funguses in the
community of Metlatónoc, Guerrero. In order to
characterize knowledge etnomicológico of the
community of Metlatónoc, Guerrero, patterned
opinion polls applied half-way to 30 collectors of
edible musrhooms through the snowball, method,
in a general way the local knowledge got registered
that collectors, the period of gathering of the edible
mushrooms and the determination of the income
generated by the sale of the mushrooms gathered,
between other ones have. The analysis of the data
work came true with the statistical program
specialized known as SAS (The SAS System for
Windows 9), by means of the one that descriptive
statisticians prepared (stocking, standard deviation
and frequency), For each one of the variables of
study. The results obtained of the present I work
they were the following; The mean age of the
collectors was of 51 21,5 years, with a status of 19
years at the very least and a maximum of 82 years,
the 56,67 % of the collectors talk only and the 43,33
% are bilingual, within knowledge etnomicológicos