Mejoramiento en el servicio de asistencia técnica agrícola a los productores de caña panelera (Saccharum robustum) en el municipio de Puerto Carreño (Vichada).

Abstract

In Colombia, the law establishes that it is of the utmost importance to evaluate and monitor the agricultural technical assistance service, in the smallest municipalities of the country this service is carried out in an inadequate and non-specific manner, that is, it is not consistent with the type of crop or activity agricultural carried out by the producer if not that they provide the service in a general way. (Reyes, 2016) The area under study for this business practice was located in the municipality of Puerto Carreño (Vichada). In this municipality the most relevant economic activities are livestock, fishing and agriculture. In agriculture the main lines are: cotton, cashew, cane, beekeeping and cocoa. For this business practice, the study sample was delimited to panelera cane producers, who belong to the Carreñenses Producers Association (ASOPROCAP) whose production line is panela cane, where the objective was to improve the technical assistance service. panelera producers of the municipality of Puerto Carreño department of Vichada, began with a preliminary diagnosis to measure the current state of development of each of the producers evaluated in this business practice, this diagnosis was made with the help of a format designed based on the variables established in the user registry of the Agricultural Development Agency (ADR). This phase allowed us to observe that the producers of sugar cane in the municipality are at a development level of level 2 (medium) and do not exceed 3 hectares in planting area, which indicates that the total production of this crop is not significant in comparison. with other panela municipalities in the country, according to the variables they did not show that the one that obtained a lower rating was Access to information and use of ICTs, since according to the average of the components they are part of this variable, it had a rating of Level 1 (Under). This qualification is mainly due to the difficult access that producers have today to technology and 17 communication issues, due to the fact that in many of the villages of the municipalities there is no coverage, in many cases the users need to travel to the urban centers if they want access to technologies such as the internet and even for access to a computer. This component demonstrates the importance of generating spaces so that producers can easily and more regularly access the use of ICTs. After this, in the second phase of the work, a pedagogical strategy was designed where talks, training and activities were established, which were oriented based on the components that obtained a level 1 (low) rating, in each of the variables that were the object of study, finally in the third phase the field practice was carried out with the producers evaluated at work based on the pedagogical strategy that was designed in advance. Where favorable results were observed since it was possible to train and guide the panelera cane producers in their most common shortcomings and it was evidenced, how to properly manage their production system, the use of BPA, use of technological information for its cultivation, access to ICT, among others, a very significant change was achieved in the thinking of these people and at the end of this work it was observed their desire to increase their agribusiness and undertake in this productive line. (Plan Departamental de Extension Agropecuaria, 2020).