Abstract

The objective of this study is to characterize agro-industrial business sector in southern Cesar in terms of chain, nature, type and size. Analyze the trends that have led to agro-industrial production in the towns of the South of Cesar and the influence it has on the academic and job in the agro-industrial engineering program’s field of the popular University of Cesar sectional Aguachica. Agro-industrial potential from South Cesar-Colombia has been giving a turn in its agricultural production by substituting rice and corn crops instead African palm, being reflected this transformation in each one of the towns of study. Allowing to offer a pertinent and updated career with the area of influence. Similarly, the most representative competences for these professionals impulse the growth processes of the agro-chains, for this it applied a descriptive-analytical methodology with a statistical design that presented a representative sample of 33% among agro-industrial companies, within the results the towns that have the most agro industry are mainly Aguachica, La Gloria, Pailitas; they are framed more in the area of oilseeds, fishing, cereals and dairy. Agricultural supplies play an important role in the economy of this area because it supplies the south of Cesar, the possibility of hiring an Agro industrial Engineer has a favorability of 36-38%. In the competences that the agro- industrial companies of the zone require from the Agro industrial Engineers are skill and abilities to analyze situations and agro industrial phenomena and capacity to solve problems efficiently and being able to justify and sustaining what situation within the agro industrial context. Leadership and teamwork are also taken into account as their own competences for the selection of South-Cesarence personnel.

Keywords:

Agroindustrial engineering, agroindustrial sector, competences, research, science,

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