Propuesta para generar una Marca Verde en un producto agrícola mediante criterios aplicados a plaguicidas en el Ecuador

Abstract

Potato is the fourth most important food crop in the world after wheat, rice and corn, providing the highest amount of carbohydrates for the diet of millions of people. In Ecuador it is an agricultural product in high demand since it is used in the daily diet. Because this type of culture is not highly technical, serious mistakes are made when handling and using pesticides to fumigate crops, generating a frequency of excessive use that can cause serious damage to the health of farmers in the long term. In order to establish a guide that allows certifying an agricultural product as a Green Mark through criteria applied to pesticides, bibliographic information was compiled in different databases, in which information was obtained on the maximum limits allowed in potatoes, the use of pesticides in the crops of Ecuador and the different toxicological parameters that can be measured to generate a Green Mark. The information was synthesized and classified to generate a practical guide that allows producers who grow potatoes in the country to have the necessary information to be certified using specific criteria applied to pesticides used in their crops. Through the literary search, the problem of pesticides in potato crops was evidenced.