Diploma in Agroindustrial Projects
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The Diploma in Agroindustrial Projects was created from the need to promote the agricultural sector, due to the stagnation of this sector that was evidenced by the Report of the High Commission of the Public Policy of Employment in Technical and Professional Occupations in the year 2014. Said report indicated that the agricultural sector it grew by 0.9% in the last decade (2004 to 2013) and generated employment for 17.1% of the Panamanian population. Additionally, it was detected that rural areas had the highest poverty rates during the period 2009 to 2013, with a poverty rate of 49.4%, compared to 13.8% in urban areas.
According to document CAD No. 365 of November 16, 2018 of the National Competitiveness Center of Panama, the behavior of the agricultural sector "about 30 years ago, the sector represented 8.9% of the composition of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while to 2017 it represents only 1.9% of the total production”.
Regarding the growth of this sector in the national economy, the previously mentioned document reveals the following:
«The activity has shown little growth in the last ten years, the sector has suffered significant falls, the most marked occurred in 2009 with a decrease in activity of 14.6% caused by the impact of the world crisis where fruit exports did not traditional also fell. The behavior of the activity of the agricultural sector seems to be disconnected from the trend of the total Gross Domestic Product, which continues to grow even with a slowdown, but the agricultural sector does not grow at the same speed. The foregoing can be seen in 2015, in which the economy grew by 5.6%, while agricultural activity decreased by -0.8%, which suggests that this sector failed to take advantage of the circumstances that allowed it to achieve positive results in total GDP. .” "Regarding employment, what is registered in the activity of agriculture, livestock, hunting, fishing, forestry and other related activities gives us an approach to the employment generated as of August 2017, which reached 14.5% of total jobs (258,831 people ), of which 75.4% are men and 24.6% are women. On the other hand, 45% of the rural employed are dedicated to the aforementioned activity, while only 2% of the employed are from the urban area. For the measurement of 2017, those employed in the activity of agriculture, livestock, hunting, fishing, forestry and other related activities grew by 4.8% although below other economic activities. It is worth mentioning that this sector generates close to 14% of employment in the country, but only has 1.9% of the relative participation in the national economy.” (CaD # 365 - Behavior of the Agricultural Sector, 2018).
12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Topic 1: Conceptualization and introduction to the agricultural sector.
- Topic 2: Legal aspects of the agricultural sector.
- Topic 3: Treaties, conventions and signed agreements.
- Topic 4: Aspects of entrepreneurship and market research.
- Theme 5: Statistics applied to the agricultural sector.
12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Theme 6: Agro-industrial projects that can be developed in the Panamanian context.
- Topic 7: Agricultural sustainability. Self-sustaining farms; microfarms and minifarms; tropical and urban permaculture.
- Theme 8: agrotourism; Proagrotur; tourist activities associated with the agricultural productive sector.
- Theme 9: Applied technology; appropriate technologies: agroecological production techniques.
- Topic 10: Irrigation projects.
- Module 3 – Teaching – Learning 24/7: 12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Topic 11: Formulation and evaluation of projects.
- Topic 12: Costs and budgets.
- Topic 13: Microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects to take into account in the formulation of an agro-industrial project.
- Topic 14: Agricultural competitiveness and commercial openness; exports.
- Topic 15: agricultural cooperatives; integration and alliances; binding networks.
- Module 4 – Preparation and Presentation of the Agroindustrial Project: 12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Advice 1: Home and planning.
- Advice 2: Execution.
- Advice 3: Monitoring and control. Closing.
- Advice 4: Presentation of Projects
12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Topic 11: Formulation and evaluation of projects.
- Topic 12: Costs and budgets.
- Topic 13: Microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects to take into account in the formulation of an agro-industrial project.
- Topic 14: Agricultural competitiveness and commercial openness; exports.
- Topic 15: agricultural cooperatives; integration and alliances; binding networks.
- Module 4 – Preparation and Presentation of the Agroindustrial Project: 12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Advice 1: Home and planning.
- Advice 2: Execution.
- Advice 3: Monitoring and control. Closing.
- Advice 4: Presentation of Projects
12 synchronous hours of tutoring plus 18 asynchronous hours of work – Total 30 hours
- Advice 1: Home and planning.
- Advice 2: Execution.
- Advice 3: Monitoring and control. Closing.
- Advice 4: Presentation of Projects
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