Elements to Form the Industrial Cassava Value Chain in Corozal, Sucre

This research allowed establishing the elements to form the industrial cassava value chain in Corozal, Sucre, understanding that cassava is a major crop in Colombia. Based on data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE in Spanish), cassava, after rice, is an agricultural product contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP). A non-probabilistic sample was applied to 27 industrial cassava producers at the municipality in 2022. The results were determined by written surveys and field visits, and then they were consolidated, analyzed, and interpreted for this segment to the cassava value chain. The agricultural technique is ancestral and manual inherited from their ancestors, and much of the land is rented; its products are dried and fresh cassava. Most of the agricultural stores of the municipality and some stores of other parts of the department are among the suppliers of raw materials necessary for production. Moreover, the production link opens with the land preparation, which includes cleaning the residues of the previous harvest, and the compost or fertilizer usage, normally made in summer season. And the processing and transformation link, considering that the physical infrastructure of one of the country’s two industrial cassava processing plants is located in the municipality of Corozal. Based on the results, it is concluded that the associative model and the elements to form the chain value of industrial cassava in Corozal focus on producers, who need to receive support from the other actors, in order to obtain agricultural products with high yield and quality levels.