Perfil socioeconómico y ambiental de la asociación agraria bananera fincas de El Oro

Abstract

The study of the socioeconomic and environmental profiles of farmers in Ecuador are scarce, which is why this research aimed to describe the socioeconomic and environmental profile of the Asociación Agraria Bananera Fincas de El Oro. The population consisted of 42 associates, who answered a questionnaire structured by closed questions, which formed the social, economic and environmental indicators of categorical and nominal type. The Chi-square test was applied to determine significance (p<0.05) in the indicators of economic income/level of education and farm size/sources of financing. A predominance of the male gender over the female was found, most of the partners are over 45 years old and 29 partners affiliated their workers to the social security. Within the income range, 26 partners received income > $1 500 per month. Significance (p=0.056) was only established between economic income/level of education.