Abstract

ANALUISA AROCA, Iván Alberto; GUERRERO-CASADO, José; FERNANDEZ GALLARDO, José Antonio  and  RODRIGUEZ ULCUANGO, Olga Maritza. Use of multivariate analysis techniques to ascertain socioeconomic traits of corn farmers in the Province of Manabí. Podium [online]. 2020, n.38, pp.1-16. ISSN 2588-0969.  https://doi.org/10.31095/podium.2020.38.1.

Farmers´ situation aligns macro objectives, conditions and their own daily living activities. Variables interact in different scenarios developed by hard-corn growers in Manabí-Ecuador; variables have an effect on the country´s productive development. This work started from the application of a multivariate model, which was based on a multipurpose study. This generated an interrelated conglomerates concerning social, economic, political, productive and environmental variables. A high grouping similarity was presented in results, both in observation techniques and between the analyzed variables. The high impact of influential variables, especially those related to economic and to productive variables was demonstrated. Productive variable includes planting time, planting area and irrigation water availability. The economic variable includes annual invoicing and employee number. Observation diversity is affected by shorter distances for social, political and environmental variables related to decision-taking; a positive impact is generated by hard-corn growers.

Keywords : Farmers; cluster; corn; multivariate; dendrogram; conglomerates.

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