Análisis de la actividad comercial e industrial de la Stevia (endulzante natural - medicinal) y su aporte socio económico como producto de exportación. Período 2002-2006

Abstract

In the given country the external demand has forced Ecuadorian managers to be interested in non traditional cultivations and inside this context they have intruded in the stevia achieving excellent results, reaching a significant export volume as given transformed products its estates like natural endulzante. As primary and industrialized item you has ended up being marketed big volumes, and in the last years he/she has become the main commercial activity inside the natural medicinal items of agricultural origin that it mobilizes important capitals, constituting this way a very interesting alternative for the generation of economic resources in the Country. Depending on their use, he/she chews it to him or in infusion the leaves with high endulzante power. While already become the existent laboratories in the country, this it markets it to him under the presentation of syrups (100cc), pills and capsule (you Pack plastic or cardboard of 30 units), you cremate (you Pack of glass of 60 grams) and powdered (Hermesetas). The national commercialization, is made at property level., where the producer sells the leaves harvested to the buyer previous agreement or contract, the same one that takes charge of transporting to the companies resided in the city of Guayaquil and I Remove for its export. Being the commercialization unit in sacks with capacity of 110 pounds, which depends on the locus in quo is marketed, and the sale price depends from the relationship oferta/demanda to the moment of the commercialization. In Manabí, this activity has settled down mostly in the canton The Carmen, as direct consequence of the growing demand of the external market. On the other hand the cantons Flints, Pichincha, Flavio Alfaro and Chone have cultivation areas for their commercialization. This sector occupies in its varied phases to qualified and unqualified personnel that you/they involve from the siembra, controls (deshierbas, fertilization, prunings, it harvests), transport, prosecution, drying and commercialization of the leaves, what represents for many families an economic source of income. Regarding the cultivation, commercialization and export of the derivates of the industrialized stevia is sectorizado in the tropical and sub-tropical area in the country according to that investigated, what has allowed him to have access to the domestic market and international, what has created him a different status in the countries consumers.