Abstract

The development of the income generated in Ecuador depends to a large extent on agricultural activity, especially on the production and commercialization of bananas, however, it has allowed the leveraging of development in the cities where its activity is managed, being necessary for the different control and research entities monitor their activity in order to generate continuous improvement to their processes. The objective of this research is to study the behavior of the price regulation of the export banana box and its influence on the economy in the last 5 years. The research is of a non-experimental type with a cross-section, allowing a survey of longitudinal information regarding banana production. The results indicated that banana exports showed a slight growth trend from September 2016 to 2020. In 2019, the Incoterm Free On board (FOB) price was $ 3,310,588.27, with an increase of 2% compared to 2018 and an increase of 21% with respect to 2016. On September 2020, the export value was $ 2,868,914.87 billion among them, which represents around 87% of the total value registered in 2019. After analyzing the price change corresponding from 2015 to 2020, it is noticed that the price changes were increasing, but, between 2017 and 2018, the price ranged between $ 6.26 of its price and $ 6.20, which is equivalent to -0.96%. The best result reached its value at a price of $ 6.40 in 2020 year.

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