Impactos de la producción porcina en la calidad ambiental del cantón Las Lajas, provincia de El Oro

Abstract

In the canton The Lajas, the porcine production, it is an activity that has different behavior and economic dynamics in the rural families. The systems of exploitation are the extensive one, semi - intensive that it combines with the baby's system of subsistence that they confine in rustic corrals or traspatio. The modalities of the production are of complete cycle and of pigs (baby's foot). In any of the modalities or systems, it is a source of alternative and complementary income to the bovine and agricultural production, because in many of the cases it is translated in a possibility of saving; beside providing meat and derivatives. Nevertheless, he is a causer of impacts in the environmental quality and the generation of conflicts socioambientales latent as her of supporting gaps and inequity of kind. The investigation was based on the approaches qualitatively and quantitatively, on that there bring together the modalities of office and of field, capture contributions of the descriptive and explanatory expositions. It takes a representative random sample of 38 units of a total of 179 units of porcine production. This way, on the basis of the statistics, the systems of production that prevail in the canton, rural and urban parishes, communities and familiar units, are the semi- ix intensive one that covers 52 % opposite to the extensive one that is equivalent to 45 % and 3 % of production intensively. The modalities of production are orientated to fatten (45 %) and baby's foot or production of pigs (55 %), nevertheless, does not exclude to the analysis, the families that devote themselves the production the complete cycle that has the intention of self-consumption and sale of pigs from to two sows a year.