Estudio de factibilidad para la producción orgánica y comercialización de Quina (Cinchona officinalis) en el Cantón Loja.

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Author	Leonardo, J. I. García Alvarado, Tapia
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This is a feasibility study for organic production and marketing of quinine (Cinchona officinalis) in Loja. The study considers the cinchona tree production in 35 hectares over 10 years, with a density of 8.000 plants per hectare, where 4.000 are cinchona trees and other 4.000 are alders shade providers. This project will present an alternative against the traditional crops of Ecuador cloud forests. Despite the historical and economic importance of the cinchona tree, is currently nationally ranked as an species potentially threatened because over-exploitation for trade of its trees bark, mainly to extract the alkaloid quinine, the malaria cure during the seventeenth , eighteenth, nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. Data from market study are very old. In the offer study, the last major production of cinchona bark which corresponds to 1938, where Ecuador exported 73,481.9 bark kilograms, then in 1998 was the most recently exportation of 42,780 kilograms of cinchona bark with an FOB value of $ 16,555. Similarly, the last major peak of cinchona bark demand was between 1941 and 1945, where the United States imported from South America 13,607,771.1 bark kilograms. This study collected much of the still available information of cinchona tree, this allowing develop a management plan for organic farming cinchona tree and develop a financial study that showed that the project is financially viable. The financial indicators were IRR of 42%, NPV of $ 1.759.928,30 and a benefit-cost of $ 33.64 showing profitability.
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