¿Cómo la producción y comercialización de cacao se relaciona con el desarrollo económico de la provincia de El Oro?

Abstract

The present investigative work aims to know at what level the production and commercialization of cocoa influences the economic development of the province of El Oro. In addition, it seeks to highlight the importance of this product in the local and national economy; since the primary sector of the economy plays a fundamental role in economic development at the national level. Likewise, the increase in production, marketing of cocoa and the level of performance of this product in the province in recent years has been analyzed. For this, a bibliographic review, of books and scientific articles has been carried out; similarly, to obtain data, secondary sources of information such as INEC, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and Anencacao were taken as reference, later the most relevant data have been processed and presented in statistical tables and graphics to improve understanding and detail their respective analysis. The main results show that the performance of cocoa in the local economy is essential, it has also been shown that its performance in recent years has decreased at the provincial level.