Proyecto de factibilidad para la implementación de un centro de acopio de cacao en la parroquia Puerto Limón en la provincia de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Abstract

The present researching work had as an aim to realise a feasibility project to the implementation of a cacao collection centre in the Puerto Limón Parish, in the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, province. For the development of this project methodologies like the quantitative and qualitative were used, in addition of the field researching. To evaluate and analyse the problematics that the province cacao producers have, were token surveys addressed to the same producers, the result of the mentioned surveys certainly determined that the cacao producers of the Parish are prepared to commercialise their production in the collection centre. In the market study it was able to know that there is unsatisfied demand of fine aroma cacao in the national and international markets due to it is a highest quality cacao and its price is very high. Through the technical study it was stablished the collection centre plant structure, the kind of machinery that is going to be used and the cacao production processes, also, it was stablished a structural organigram according to the activities that the employees and the collection centre workers roll. For the financial study or financial evaluation, the corresponding financial statements and their respective projections were carried out, obtaining the following results; in the Net Present Value (NPV) it was calculated a value of 106.468, 82, an Internal Rate of Return of the 43, 52% and a Cost-Benefit Ratio of 2, 03. This shows that the collection centre project is feasible and it is recommended its immediate execution, due to the obtained values in this study are very satisfactory and generate high profitability.