Analysis of the market concentration of the agricultural sector in Ecuador. Periodo 2015 - 2019

Abstract

This article studies the market competition of the agricultural sector in Ecuador, specifically of the subgroups corresponding to: A011 cultivation of non-perennial plants, and A012 cultivation of perennial plants of the International Standard Industrial Classification for the years 2015 to 2019. Consequently, the objective proposed in this study is to analyze the concentration of the agricultural sector market in Ecuador using concentration indicators, such as Cr4, Cr8, Herfindahl-Hirschman and the equivalent number, for which net sales have been used, in dollars, reported by the companies operating in this sector, information that has been provided by the Superintendency of Companies, Securities and Insurance of Ecuador for the years 2015-2019. As main conclusions, it can be mentioned that the market of the segments corresponding to the cultivation of non-perennial plants, and cultivation of perennial plants from 2015 to 2019 is not concentrated.