Estudio de Prefactibilidad para una Planta de Transformación de Cacao en Chocolate de Mesa en el Municipio de Puerto Gaitán en el Departamento del Meta

Abstract

A prefeasibility study is carried out which seeks to verify the viability of the project to create a plant for the transformation of cocoa into table chocolate in the municipality of Puerto Gaitán in the department of Meta, thus discovering a latent business opportunity in this place, with this project a commercial alliance is also sought with small cocoa producers in the area since due to their geographical location they do not have a point of commercialization of cocoa especially in distant villages of the municipality of Puerto Gaitán such as Rubiales, Puerto Triunfo, Santa Helena and Alto Tillava since they are small producers which have small areas of cultivation, which are made up of two hectares, most of these have been granted by the government of Meta, but no one in the area has given a use to the grain that allows generating added value, the commercialization of this product the closest place to make its sale is in Villavicencio because historically the places of production in this department have focused on the Ariari basin. It seeks to be part of the agro-industry transformation and commercialization of cocoa in which the broad participation of agricultural communities of small producers is expected, providing services that benefit not only the same company but a community in general. Different aspects were taken into account for the plant design, such as location, plant distribution, and logistics, competitiveness, financial and technical market analyses were also carried out for the preparation of this study and the information collected turns out to be satisfactory to undertake with this business idea.