Análisis de la caída de exportación del arroz en el Ecuador post covid-19.

Abstract

Ecuador became the 43rd largest rice exporter in the world in 2022, with exports worth $28.4 million dollars. In that particular year, rice ranked as the country's 53rd most popular export. Two years before the aforementioned period, world food security was put to the test with the COVID-19 pandemic, in Manabí alone, the impact in March 2020 caused more than 60 days of paralysis, affecting the country's rice agricultural sector to a great extent, and incalculable losses in the productive zone. This research provides guidelines in which the varieties of rice grown in Ecuador, the provinces where the highest percentage of rice area is concentrated, the main export destinations of the grain and the impact of the pandemic on the rice sector are made known.