Economic and productive evolution of the banana sector in the province of El Oro in the 2011 - 2020

Abstract

This research makes a theoretical analysis of how the Ecuadorian banana sector has evolved since the last decade, addressing the economy and productivity dimensions, emphasizing the differentiation between the pre- and post-pandemic stage. The need to enrich the state of the art of this line of research has been identified because the existing literature on it differs considering that the sources of information that are taken as reference for statistical production present different data from each other, therefore, at the end an analysis of the official data taken from the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) is carried out. The type of research is descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional and with a mixed approach, which used techniques such as bibliographic review and documentary review. The findings allowed to determine that the Ecuadorian banana sector has had a positive evolution in the last decade, it has a greater reception in the international market than in the local one, especially in the European one, it is one of the two main ones of the non-oil trade balance, was in better conditions to face the COVID-19 pandemic, the ravages did not considerably affect its growth and an encouraging outlook is even expected for the coming years since investments have been made since 2019 which have allowed the Ecuadorian banana to acquire a competitive advantage over its competitors and the world market.