Determination of the main agricultural production items in the province of Chimborazo

Abstract

The agricultural production of the province is varied and responds to the consumer culture that Ecuadorians have because what is produced in Chimborazo reaches most of the national markets. The objective of this investigative work is to determine which are the main agricultural production items of our rurality. The methodology starts from a qualitative and quantitative approach, based on the inductive and deductive method, the population sample was 359 surveyed and interviewed families, distributed in the different cantons of the province. After obtaining the information, we proceeded to systematize and interpret it, is important to mention that this information was socialized and validated through the associated parish councils in CONAJOPARE CHIMBORAZO. From this research work, the deepening of this study is expected, through other research works fundamentally linked to the determination of production costs and the establishment of their impact on the income of families in the province of Chimborazo. The results obtained indicate that the most outstanding agricultural and livestock crops in terms of production área are: beans, potatoes, alfalfa, and milk production respectively, the same ones that are rooted in the Andean food culture and that have displaced to other autochthonous crops such as Quinoa, Amaranth. Finally, the study ends with the generation of conclusions and recommendations based on the results found, which raise the need to carry out complementary studies that serve as a basis to change the rural productive matrix of Chimborazo considering that many of the crops that are produced today They are very unstable in terms of price in the local and national market, which has a significant impact on the composition of the economic income of rural families in my province.