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Impacto social de los programas de certificación Ras y/o Flo en fincas cafeteras en el municipio de Pitalito Huila

Resumen

Colombia, one of the producing and exporting countries of the best coffee in the world, is undoubtedly a focus of research on how its production process is. The peasants, the person in charge and the innate protagonist of everything, are the ones who cover all this laborious work that implies its great usefulness. Each one of these people, some of these owners or workers, but regardless of their role, are the ones who dedicate all their effort every day to carry out this process of coffee cultivation. In accordance with this and with the proper interest of carrying out an investigation, it was necessary to study and get to know the cultivator first hand, finding in each one of them peculiar stories that he gave us through his calls; These last executions according to the time and disposition of each one of them since, due to the situation that overwhelms us due to the pandemic, it was impossible to make visits and learn much more about what this entails. However, the impediment was not an obstacle to be "close" with the protagonist and thus continue with the realization of an interesting investigation, yielding data such as the classes of pesticides, the risks to which they are affected, the chemical substances, the application of prevention control strategies. With the above, an analysis of the environmental impacts that coffee cultivation entails is carried out, since many farms try to optimize their profits by intensifying their cultivation causing misuse, a clear example it is the loss of habitats rich in biodiversity and the use of pesticides causing considerable contamination in the water source. Some of these coffee growers are dedicated to everything that the process entails, but they do not stop to contemplate the possible consequences that this entails but if it is carried out correctly. According to this and the experiences as a student of the industrial engineering program, each of the contributions and research was evaluated for the subsequent pertinent analysis. In this way, in each of these interviews, events will be found in which the causer in various situations will carry out activities that are harmful to the environment. Accordingly, as an engineer, he intends to design and control the production process, to avoid problems from which they are derived from different causes found.