Caracterización en el eslabón de comercialización en la cadena de valor del cultivo de Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) en el departamento del Meta.

Abstract

The research project entitled “Characterisation of the marketing link in the value chain of the Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia Volubilis) crop in the department of Meta"; is a brief analysis of the regional context in which the actors involved in this process and the structure of the marketing channels arising from the Sacha Inchi crop are highlighted. Sacha Inchi is a new agroindustrial production alternative in Colombia, which due to its high content in Omega3, 6 and 9, helps to improve neurocognitive faculties, helps to control cholesterol, has properties to prevent anxiety, (SachaColombia, 2016), in addition to its high degree of profitability, has become anagribusiness and in the field of socialaction is used for the substitution ofillicit crops, hence the importance ofresearch on this crop for the conformation, consolidation and strengthening of the value chain of Sacha Inchi. Bearing in mind that our main research focus, on the commercialization channels of the Sacha Inchi crop, will be in the municipalities of Villavicencio, Granada, San Martin and Puerto López in the department of Meta, we are going to present in this document the link in the productive chain of the Sacha Inchi crop, who produces and who consumes.