Análisis de sistemas productivos en la comunidad Puculcay de la subcuenca del río San Francisco, Azuay

Abstract

In the productive systems, interactions established by different types of activities are observed, whether they are agricultural, livestock and even those not directly related to agricultural work. All of them are, in effect, made by the members of a peasant family, who constitute the productive potential of small and medium-scale systems. As part of this situation, in this exploratory research different techniques have been used to diagnose agricultural production systems, with emphasis on the methodology proposed by Apollin and Eberhart in 1999, with the aim of analyzing functionality relationships that originate with the use and appropriation of land, labor and capital production factors, which include agricultural production practices that would be efficient if developed in an integral and complementary way. Therefore, as a general objective, it was proposed to analyze the productive systems of the community association "Lagunas de Mesarrumi" of the Puculcay community in the sub-basin of the San Francisco River, Azuay. In the first instance, a rapprochement was made with the organized community group in order to identify significant socioeconomic and productive parameters of the area, later an interview script was designed and built with the previously established parameters and information was collected from 49 productive farms of the families that make up the peasant association, thus managing to identify four types of agricultural production through the analysis of their economic and productive rationalities.