The agroindustry of not centrifugal sugar (NCS) production is the second agricultural sector in Colombia, due to its contribution to the generation of jobs and planted area. Despite its contribution to the national economy, this agroindustry faces a series of technological problems that require the modernization of traditional production processes, such as the transportation of sugar cane from the crop plots to the processing point (trapiche), which continues to be developed using pack animals. The objective of this work was to characterize the transportation process of sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) to produce NCS through the definition and measurement of logistical indicators for the transportation of agricultural products. The research was carried out during the months of April and October 2021 in five municipalities in the department of Boyacá (Colombia) where NCS production tak...

Soil conservation practices are a strategy to mitigate the constant degradation that can occur when crops are established. It is of great importance to evaluate the effect that this type of practices can have on the development of sugarcane plants. The objective of the study was to evaluate agronomic variables (population and stem weight, plant height and stem diameter) and quality of sugarcane juices (pH, content of soluble solids, reducing sugars, sucrose and phosphorus content) for panela production. For this, a one-factor experiment with two treatments (reduced and conventional tillage systems) was established in an area of 4000 square meters in the municipality of Vélez (department of Santander-Colombia). No statistically significant differences were observed (p > 0.05) in the evaluated variables, indicating that the evaluated tillage treatments do not interfere with both the de...