Plan de negocio de la empresa “Easyagro”

Abstract

One of the major problems in agriculture is the impact of pests and diseases that cause great losses in agricultural production systems, which implies an economic expense for phytosanitary control over these high-risk invasions through traditional fumigation methods with pesticides. The need for farmers is to find a solution or alternative to reduce labor, time, and coverage of the product in the crops. In large areas that exceed 5 hectares and less than 15 hectares, they intend to fumigate with the faster method by small plane. However, access to the crops is complicated because it is not economically feasible for light aircraft companies to carry out fumigation activities on properties smaller than 20 hectares. Today, technology provides equipment known as UAVs (drones), which are unmanned aerial vehicles with the ability to fumigate 1 taking between 10 to 15 minutes with 20 liters of product solution capacity. The present study was carried out in the provinces of El Oro and Azuay in the southern part of Ecuador, in which market information was collected from producers and thusdetermined the viability of implementing a drone fumigation service in this study area. The market study indicates that both medium and small producers demand that there be benefits of this fumigation service for their crops, and that said cost does not exceed traditional fumigation where they usually require more labor and work time