Descriptive analysis of the production chain of banana in Casanare

There are associations dedicated to banana cultivation in Casanare that usually operate independently, without interacting with other actors due to the lack of knowledge of the chain, making it difficult to build the information system to design and implement strategies that increase the level of local and national competitiveness. This article relates the density of plantain crops by municipality, identifies actors, structure of the value network, level of development and the projection of future actions. A descriptive field study with a quantitative approach was undertaken using simple random sampling, with a reliability margin of 94 % and an error rate of 6 %. The instrument was applied to producers, marketers and stakeholders, validating the analysis and dependence of variables through contingency tables and independence tests, as well as the use of georeferencing tools to identify crops of the product in the department. The results of this work establish a current view of the banana chain in Casanare, as well as the formulation of actions applied to the context of the department as a specific baseline that supports the Departmental Strategic Plan for Science and Technology and Innovation of the department and national productive chains.