Políticas agrarias y su impacto en el sector agropecuario ecuatoriano

Abstract

Abstract: This paper evidences the support that the Ecuadorian government has given to the dairy sector during the 2008-2020 period. For this, was used the classification of agrarian policies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was applied, which, by reviewing the applied policies, classified the producer and consumer estimators, as appropriate. Colombia was taken as the reference country, where different results are obtained with different units of measurement, that is, the price paid to the producer has been lower in Ecuador than in Colombia, which results in a negative differential until 2013 and from 2014. they turn positive. But, when it was converted from USD/liter to USD/MT, the differential is negative for the entire 2008-2020 period. The estimator of support via prices identifies that hasn ́t been a significant support from the government in this regard; In addition, despite the efforts by the government to encourage local consumption, it is identified that the smuggling of milk and its derivatives, which causes distortion within the dairy market, must be controlled.