Marketing of dry corn in Ventanas Canton area, Los Ríos province-Ecuador

This document details the sale of dried corn in the Ventanas area. Farmers suffer the consequences in marketing, which affects their income. The commercialization of hard corn in the Ventanas area is one of the main factors that farmers must take into account, because their yields, when they apply appropriate technology are in accordance with the materials used, therefore the marketing of the product is a reason to the development of the present investigation. The conclusions are as follows that government agencies establish marketing policies for the dry corn chain; That the farmers of the Ventanas area become associated to seek improvements in terms of access to credit and the reopening of collection centers in order to obtain better economic benefits and the farmers mostly invest between $ 1000.00 and $ 1400.00 per hectare, emphasizing that in Their farms do not have an irrigation system, so they sow at the beginning and end of the rainy season to take advantage of the water resource, generally manually using spekes (56.0%).