Abstract

ESPINOZA AGUILAR, Yuri Patricio; BUELE CALDERON, Maria Belén; MERCHAN OCHOA, Aida Patricia  and  LUNA FLORIN, Alex Dumany. DIAGNOSIS OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS DUE TO NOISE IN COCOA PROCESSING OF THE CAORO CORPORATION AT RÍO NEGRO SITE. Revista San Gregorio [online]. 2018, vol.1, n.22, pp.22-29. ISSN 2528-7907.

In the Río Negro sector belonging to the La Victoria parish of the Santa Rosa canton, the CAORO corporation (El Oro Agro-exporting Corporation) has been developing the activity of buying cocoa, where it is fermented and dried for marketing at the national level and subsequent export, this activity has social and environmental impacts. Among the social impacts, it was found that workers are exposed for an extended period of time to noise with decibels that exceed the permissible limits established in the Unified Text of Environmental Secondary Legislation. In the environmental impacts it was observed that the noise affects terrestrial birds such as Furnarius cinnamomeus, Dives warszewiczi, Ara chloroptera, Eastern bluebird, Columba livia, Turdus merula, of the sector causing them to be disturbed in the search for food because they are always alert to Predators, also some birds modify their natural behavior when trilling in this noisy environment. The vibrations generated by the machinery used have adverse effects on the health of the worker who lives in the corporation, causing spondylitis, disc calcification and even less manual ability. In wildlife, vibrations cause mechanical damage to the digestive system and respiratory systems.

Keywords : Drying; cocoa; noise; vibrations; impacts.

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