Table 3 Reasons expressed by people of the communites studied in the Tehuacán Valley for maintaining shrubs and trees in their agroforestry plots
Total | Zapotitlán | Axusco | Quiotepec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Reasons | % | % | % | % |
Asthetic (beauty) | 14 | 25 | 7.5 | 0 |
Shade | 14 | 15 | 7.5 | 18 |
Maintaining water | 7 | 10 | 0 | 9 |
Windbreaker | 7 | 5 | 7.5 | 9 |
Food (other than fruit) | 7 | 0 | 15 | 9 |
Unnecessary to remove them | 7 | 0 | 15 | 9 |
Fruit | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
Fuel wood | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Habitat of the edible larvae cuchamá | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Other uses | 5 | 5 | 7.5 | 0 |
Fodder | 5 | 0 | 7.5 | 9 |
Maintaining of soil | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Habitat of pitahayas | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Tools | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 |
Ritual | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 |
Atractor of other species | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 |
Rules | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 |
Medicinal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Habitat of edible Hemiptera cocopaches | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Making the terrain plainer | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |