Analisis socioeconomico sobre los efectos del covid-19 a los comerciantes de productos agropecuarios del mercado San Antonio del canton Pasaje

Abstract

In this research, a socioeconomic analysis is presented on the effects caused to the traders of agricultural products of the San Antonio market of the Pasaje canton, with the objective of making a social and economic analysis on the impact that covid-19 has had on the traders who are dedicated to the marketing of agricultural products of the San Antonio market and at the same time identify how it affected their income, considering that the coronavirus is a disease that affected many traders worldwide and forced them to find different alternatives to generate sales, considering that society was forced to change its behavior in the face of this emergency. Trade within the markets is part of the economic structure where it refers to the system of goods that are traded between seller and buyer, where the production that have farmers and ranchers in the field provide people to distribute the products and this reaches the final consumer, however, before the challenge that traders had at the beginning of the pandemic was very large. Covid-19 generated an important impact within the country directly affecting formal and informal commerce where many families were harmed and where the capacity of people to acquire products was reduced, due to the lack of employment, where inequality and poverty was generated in families, the methodology used in this research was a descriptive methodological design, where it was possible to determine and interpret the aspects stated in the objectives. In this research, a survey was conducted with closed questions to 146 traders of agricultural products of the San Antonio market, the details of the population of traders were obtained directly by the market administration, then proceeded to take the information from the traders who were randomly sampled, The data obtained were tabulated in the Microsoft Excel program to be exported to the SPSS statistical program where the respective analysis of each question was performed, based on the results obtained bar graphs were built where we facilitated its interpretation, whose information reflects that 52% of agricultural traders are women in relation to men who have 48%, the commercial positions indicate that 32. 4% are mostly vegetable stalls, followed by chicken stalls 15.2% and beef stalls with 13.3% with the highest indexes of people per segment. The pandemic generated by covid-19 affected directly and indirectly the traders of agricultural products of the San Antonio market, in addition to the results mentioned above, the traders indicated that sales fell for 37.14%, considering that other traders of agricultural products mentioned that their income increased this represents 32.38%, however, 30.48% of people consider that sales were maintained, taking into account the social and economic debacle that this disease represented for society, however, they continued with each commercial work.