Impacto de las actividades productivas en el desarrollo socioeconómico de los habitantes de la parroquia Uzhcurrumi año 2021

Abstract

This research study entitled "Impact of productive activities on the socioeconomic development of the inhabitants of the Uzhcurrumi Parish. Year 2021", arises as a concern of its authors after knowing certain baseline information that allowed inferring the existence of an economic and social problem with serious consequences in the socio-family development of the population of this important locality. The problem referred to is associated with the productive decline of traditional primary activities, socioeconomic poverty and the exodus of young people who migrate to other cities in search of opportunities. The rural parish of Uzhcurrumi, which belongs to the Pasaje Canton of the province of El Oro, has a history that testifies to having been a place of abundant agricultural and livestock production and commercialization that satisfied the demand for food products from the Ecuadorian Austro and from the lower and upper parts of the province based on productive exchange. Currently the population continues to dedicate itself mainly to the legendary agricultural and livestock production keeping alive the history and tradition, however, the lack of self-management and government support have determined a sense of productive decline, and with it, the deterioration of local socioeconomic development. Several causal factors converge in the explanation of this problematic reality, but without a doubt, it is focused on the absence of local planning oriented to productive diversification, even more so, if we consider the great potential for socioeconomic development that the territory possesses. The lack of management in this sense has led to the degradation of traditional productive activities, the reproduction of socioeconomic poverty and the migration of youth to other cities in the province and the country, a fact that allows us to glimpse a critical trend horizon in the immediate future of the Parish. The main objective of the research was to determine the level of impact generated by productive activities on the socioeconomic development of the Uzhcurrumi parish of the Pasaje canton. The study assumes the characteristics of a descriptive and explanatory diagnostic research, with a theoretical foundation in the empirical-inductive epistemological approach and philosophical support in logical positivism. Consequently, the quantitative methodological approach was adopted, with the use of techniques and instruments such as structured observation, questionnaire and semi-structured interview, which made possible the apprehension of important empirical information. The results of the diagnostic research verified the existence of a limited contribution of traditional productive activities to local socioeconomic development, with full identification of the causal system of the fact, especially the limited management and planned intervention of the local GAD in the design of a productive diversification plan, the weak cohesion, organization and social participation in the analysis and solution of community problems. This situation has caused small farmers to generate only a captive economy, i.e., production for self-consumption and survival of the local inhabitants. Finally, the systematized empirical information would give rise to the construction of a matrix of community requirements, from whose justifying analysis of relevance, operational feasibility and social impact, the most appropriate requirement was selected, which would give rise to the intervention proposal consisting of the planning of a Training Program for the development of community micro-entrepreneurship, as a strategy for local productive diversification, all oriented to the expansion of the productive offer, the reduction of poverty, to stop the exodus of young people, the improvement of the quality of life and the good family and social life.