Productive Capacity of the Department of Quindío within the Framework of Sustainability

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to determine the productive capacity of the department of Quindío, taking as a reference the analysis of the productive vocation of the territory for the period 2021; for which, a type of exploratory research was proposed following an analytical method from a quantitative approach; from the use of descriptive statistics for the treatment of information, as well as georeferencing tools to locate the natural and created vocation in the municipalities of the department. The results prove that the predominant crop in the department is bananas, followed by coffee and oranges. In addition, 25% of the municipalities in the department have overexploited land use and 50% are underutilized. In terms of productivity, it is evident that citrus crops have the highest yields at the national level, while bananas, even though they have a yield above the national average, are below the departments with the highest yields at the national level.