Diseño del modelo para el establecimiento y declaración de nuevas áreas libres de plagas agrícolas por parte del Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario ICA.

Abstract

In the present work, a model design was proposed for the establishment and declaration of new pest-free areas to address the problem evidenced in the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), which for this case consists of the absence of a documented model according to national and international guidelines on the procedure for the declaration of pest-free areas; the foregoing includes aspects that generate operational reprocesses on the part of the areas responsible for adopting phytosanitary measures related to the problems that are required within the national territory. For this reason, the general objective was "to strengthen planning for the establishment and declaration of new agricultural pest-free areas in Colombia to be applied by the Colombian Agricultural Institute -ICA- in fulfillment of its mission". As a method, a quantitative study was proposed, which allowed to obtain as the main result a documentary model to facilitate the issuance of phytosanitary declarations, allowing to establish in the discussions that, mainly, the strategy built can be valid so that it is implemented in all the headquarters of the institution in Colombia.