Metodologia para el análisis económico de funciones de producción en cultivos: caso quinua

Abstract

Production functions in their different ways have been widely discussed but applied and diffused mainly in agricultural economics, being particularly important to quantify the relationship between fertilization sources and crop yields. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to show the methodology of economic analysis of production, which uses the central rotable composition design to estimate the production function. Principles of the Microeconomic production function are applied based on research aimed at reducing poverty in peasant communities in the Peruvian-Bolivian highlands where agriculture is an important economic activity but is characterized by low productivity rates. Other limitations such as: climatic variability, altitude and the fragmentation of productive units that condition an agriculture diversified that seeks to minimize the productive risk to achieve a certain food security.