Relationship between municipal gdp and territorial accessibility characteristics to farms, producers of five fruits: Tomato tree, guava, blackberry, passion fruit, and lulo

Abstract

Geostatistical techniques of spatial interpolation are applied in this study in order to evaluate the geographical location of farms that produce five types of andean commercial fruits: Blackberry, Passion fruit, Tomato Tree, Lulo and Guava. An research process has been developed to identify possible potentialities and disadvantages offered by the transport infrastructure system available in the study area, evaluating the average travel times to production zones and their coverage with respect to socioeconomic variables as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of each municipality. This type of analysis makes it possible to identify areas with deficiencies in transport infrastructure with the target to prioritize investment.