<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Subject and purpose of work:</bold> The purpose of the study was to identify the marketing system of cocoa (<italic>Theobroma cacao L.</italic>) traditionally used by producers in the provinces of Utcubamba and Bagua in the Amazonas region in Peru.<bold>Materials and methods:</bold> The study was conducted by means of the diagnostic survey method, using direct interviews with a specified population that consisted of 90 producers out of a total of 1239 affiliates grouped in 3 agricultural organizations. The study was developed in 2017.<bold>Results:</bold> The cocoa marketing system in the Amazonas region is related to the traditionally used forms and methods of production as well as to the agents involved in it.<bold>Conclusions:</bold> The cocoa marketing system identified in the provinces under study is a free market governed by laws of supply and demand with the sale of the product to intermediaries mainly in its fresh state and as raw material.</abstract>

Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of the study was to identify the marketing system of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) traditionally used by producers in the provinces of Utcubamba and Bagua in the Amazonas region in Peru.Materials and methods: The study was conducted by means of the diagnostic survey method, using direct interviews with a specified population that consisted of 90 producers out of a total of 1239 affiliates grouped in 3 agricultural organizations. The study was developed in 2017.Results: The cocoa marketing system in the Amazonas region is related to the traditionally used forms and methods of production as well as to the agents involved in it.Conclusions: The cocoa marketing system identified in the provinces under study is a free market governed by laws of supply and demand with the sale of the product to intermediaries mainly in its fresh state and as raw material.

Identifying Cocoa Marketing System (<italic>Theobroma Cacao L.</italic>) at Utcubamba and Bagua Provinces in the Region of Amazonas-Peru

Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University in Chachapoyas

Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne

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Identifying Cocoa Marketing System () at Utcubamba and Bagua Provinces in the Region of Amazonas-Peru

Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of the study was to identify the marketing system of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) traditionally used by producers in the...

Identifying Cocoa Marketing System (Theobroma Cacao L.) at Utcubamba and Bagua Provinces in the Region of Amazonas-Peru

Publié en ligne: 12 mars 2019

Pages: 27 - 36

Reçu: 01 oct. 2018

Accepté: 01 déc. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2018-0033

Mots clés
Cocoa, production and marketing systems, district, province, region, producer organization

© 2018 Vicente M. Castañeda Chávez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Identifying Cocoa Marketing System (Theobroma Cacao L.) at Utcubamba and Bagua Provinces in the Region of Amazonas-Peru

Publié en ligne: 12 mars 2019

Pages: 27 - 36

Reçu: 01 oct. 2018

Accepté: 01 déc. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2018-0033

Mots clésCocoa, production and marketing systems, district, province, region, producer organization

© 2018 Vicente M. Castañeda Chávez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Cocoa, production and marketing systems, district, province, region, producer organization