Abstract

CANAR SERNA, Dubert Yamil; SEPULVEDA FORERO, Jose Luis; MARTINEZ PACHON, Eliana  and  TIBADUIZA CASTANEDA, Leidy Patricia. Design of a traceability system as support to the cocoa production model in the Colombian Nariñense Mountain Range. RIIARn [online]. 2022, vol.9, n.1, pp.26-37. ISSN 2409-1618.  https://doi.org/10.53287/ifok7070mq36r.

We are currently facing an increasingly advanced and interconnected supply chain where traceability has become a practice that allows optimizing the operational and logistical activities of the production and conditioning processes, in which cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and its agro-industrial derivatives are no exception. It should be noted that this production system is booming in Colombia due to the quality of the grain, sustainable environmental management due to the agroforestry arrangements where it is located, the yield of its varieties and its agroindustrial malleability that allows it to serve various market segments. In We are currently facing an increasingly advanced and interconnected supply chain where traceability has become a practice that allows optimizing the operational and logistical activities of the production and conditioning processes, in which cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and its agro-industrial derivatives are no exception. In Colombia, there is a great interest in this plant species, due to its growing demand for both planting material and grain for use in export-type agro-industrial transformation. However, there is a low use of ICT tools in the cocoa sector that facilitate knowing in detail the flow of information that is generated in the production supply chain to develop forecast patterns of the agronomic practices of the crop and anticipate the needs cocoa requirement, which limits the potential of the crop in this country. It seeks to design a traceability system in five five municipalities located in the Colombian Nariño mountain range through the use of ICT tools that allow capture and consult the information in search of improving decision-making and generating added value to the final product distributed by the organizations of producers. As a result, the methodology based on social cartography and the spiral model were implemented in organizations. Its clarity in the cocoa production and conditioning processes allows the development of activities for the implementation of the tool to be tailored, understanding the particularities of each of the municipalities where it is implemented. In the near future, it is planned to extend the methodology to other cocoa regions.

Keywords : Theobroma cacao; supply chain; spiral model; TICs.

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