Principles of environmental management and decision making in agricultural enterprises in the municipality of Colón

Abstract

The livestock sector is now in a process of change and modernization where they are strengthening their environmental, social and cultural aspects, to become real profitable, comprehensive and very sustainable agricultural enterprises. In this way, the general objective of the research was to identify the principles of environmental management and decision-making in the agricultural companies of the municipality of Colón. Thus, a survey was conducted of seven agricultural producers distributed in different parishes of the municipality, and some direct observations to the field regarding the way in which each one manages its natural resources. It was evident that each producer in a very general way practise known sustainability actions of popular knowledge or empiricism, sudden and rapid changes in the loss of natural and agricultural biodiversity along with this time of pandemic that has awakened imagination by turning people into artists of the existing and exploiters of available resources. In addition, the vast majority of producers are already aware of turning their productive spaces into areas of socio-environmental equilibrium and that the decisions they make without thinking about the future can cause irreparable damage example with the water resource, soil, among others, and that negatively impact on their living environment. The implementation of an environmental management system in livestock companies will be directly influenced by a much broader and more comprehensive vision so as not to negatively impact their surroundings, similarly its competitive advantage will be crucial by the applicant need to form a form of human well-being linked to natural well-being.