La innovación tecnológica en el sector agrícola y su influencia en el desarrollo socioeconómico de los pequeños productores de los cantones 24 de Mayo y Olmedo de la provincia de Manabí

Abstract

Technological innovation has meant development and growth in any sector in which it is applied, especially in agriculture, which means a contribution in the improvement of the quality of the products and optimization in the cultivation and harvesting processes so that the small ones producers have a simpler work and greater yield of the soil in order to offer more and better products that will lead to higher economic incomes that promote their socioeconomic development. This work it was carried out in the cantons 24 de Mayo and Olmedo of the province of Manabí with the objective of analyzing the incidence of technological innovation in the socioeconomic development of the small agricultural producers of these localities, for which an investigation it has been made of descriptive type and of field using as instruments of data collection interviews and surveys to a sample of the population of study. It was possible to determine that the technological innovation in the places of study has been irregular, its level of implementation is medium, there is not much incidence due to lack of support from government entities and lack of economic resources, in addition there is not much training on new technologies. That his contribution has not had much weight in several sectors. However, there are small producers and farmers who have implemented technologies and have had support from the MAG and the municipal GADs, having greater performance in their activities and better socioeconomic development. In short, the implementation of technological innovation has had an impact on the socioeconomic development of the small producers in the cantons in question, since there is an improvement in the efficiency and performance of the processes, improving the quality of the products and optimizing the time of the work, which represents greater economic income that allows them to achieve a higher level of quality of life than those who do not use more current technologies