Circular Economy in Coffee Production Enterprises in The Carmen Canton Economía Circular en los Emprendimientos Productivos de Café en el Cantón El Carmen

Abstract

When we talk about entrepreneurship, we do it on the basis of business units which are usually people who enjoy an independent economy to develop in the specific business or productive area, the proposed research work aims to know aspects of the circular economy in the development of productive enterprises especially coffee in the canton El Carmen, so a descriptive method with a qualitative approach has been applied in data collection where interviews were applied to 10 entrepreneurs in the production, processing and marketing of this grain, and as a relevant data it was determined that 70% of the respondents do not have knowledge of circular economy and the credits that exist to develop their enterprises, the need of the coffee bean producers has been reflected in the credits they need to develop their entrepreneurship and that the interests are low to be able to remain in time as production units and generators of employment.