Análisis de los problemas ambientales generados por la actividad avícola en la provincia de El Oro

Abstract

This research work analyzes the environmental impacts produced by chicken farming in the province of El Oro, for which a qualitative approach was considered, based on scientific articles, PER models and the documentation of AGROCALIDAD regulation and control agency where it has evidence of around 84 poultry farms. The results obtained revealed that the most commercialized product is broiler meat for chicken and the cantons where this activity is most concentrated are Marcabelí and Balsas. The environmental impacts that this activity produces are related to the type of management is given to by-products, the various control agencies establish strategies to avoid compromising natural resources. It was concluded that the poultry activity generates impacts such as bad odors, emission of methane gas and contamination to the environment by the excreta of the birds, in addition to that there is no exists full compliance on the part of the various poultry farms becausd many of these are running with expired permissions.