Análisis de tendencia de la exportación de banano en el ecuador, periodo 1995-2020

Abstract

This research was developed in Ecuador in South America, so its territory is in both hemispheres. It limits to the north with Colombia and to the south and east with Peru. To the west it borders the Pacific Ocean, to carry out this trend analysis a non-experimental design was used, with a descriptive scope, with the aim of analyzing the trend of the banana production chain during the period 1995-2020, using the data obtained from the reports of the income from banana exports on an annual, inter-annual basis and monthly indices measured through the percentage of the ECB's rate of change. The main findings revealed that banana production from 1995 to 2019 has maintained a growing trend with cyclical variations. However, in the years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2012 and 2017 they presented the lowest rates and indices of variation in export earnings, from which it was argued that the main factors that had a negative impact were the El Niño phenomenon. , decrease in prices of international demand, political instability, etc. While the factors that caused income to increase include international trade agreements, alliances, new technologies, among others.