Covid-19 impacto económico en las exportaciones del sector camaronero ecuatoriano en el periodo 2019-2020.

Abstract

Shrimp farming is one of the activities that contribute the most non-oil revenues in Ecuador's Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Ecuadorian shrimp has great relevance in foreign trade, positioning it as one of the most traded star products on the international market; but with the start of quarantine globally by the Covid-19 virus, this sector of the Ecuadorian economy presented numerous obstacles; the main one was when China was one of the countries with the highest destination of exports of Ecuadorian shrimp; It found inside one of the virus's trace containers, and as a result, the Chinese government ordered the removal of the product from its markets; causing a decline in the country's non-oil revenues from shrimp exports. Therefore, the objective of this work is to carry out a comparative analysis of the statistical figures issued by the National Aquaculture Council (CNA), related to the export of shrimp from the period 2019-2020; and through this to determine the magnitude of the economic impact caused by Covid-19. This research has a qualitative approach, information is collected using articles from scientific journals, official documents issued by official government agencies, and the analytical-synthetic method is also used. The results reflect the crisis in which the shrimp industry was immersed, which left considerable monetary losses for Ecuadorian companies, in addition to this the decline in the international price of shrimp.