Universidad Agropecuaria para Daule, Santa Lucía y Salitre, provincia del Guayas, Ecuador

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to expose a thirty-year-old problem in the cantons of Daule, Santa Lucía, and Salitre in the province of Guayas, on the Ecuadorian coast. The descriptive research with a qualitative approach methodology describes a rural agricultural environment with a lack of soft credits for crops, absence of associativity to create leadership, inability to negotiate with government authorities, inability to predict abnormalities due to climate change, etc., associated with an absence of opportunities and economic resources of those who are part of the farming family. The root of the problem is the limited academic preparation of young people due to the shortage of university infrastructure in agricultural careers close to their territories, which does not allow them to enhance the integral development of young people that the labor market and society demand.  To this end, five objectives of the National Development Plan 2017-2021 are proposed to be implemented in these three cantons plus the management of other key actors to achieve sustainable economic development. The results were obtained through a questionnaire to a non-probabilistic sample and reflect the need for this university, which is seen with the optimism of young people who are still awaiting an opportunity to transform their lives and the productivity of this economic sector.