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    Evaluación de los pesos económicos en el índice de selección del programa de mejoramiento genético sostenible de bovinos de leche de la parroquia Eloy Alfaro.
    (Ecuador: Latacunga: Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (UTC), 2024-08) Almendáriz Sánchez, Angie Madeline; Barragán Rojas, Sebastián Vinicio; Veloz Veloz, Dina Maricela
    The economy of small, medium and large milk producers in Ecuador has been affected in recent years, due to the low profitability, they have, the knowledge lack from genetic improvement programs, which there is in the country greatly affects dairy production, therefore, the aim the work is to assess the economic weights the selection indices within the Eloy Alfaro parish, by taking into account the daily milk production, the milk density, the daily gain of weight and the height at the withers. Using tools, what allow us to validate this data, as: lactodensimeter, bovine measuring tape, measuring tape and animal records, by the UTCgen and Excel application. It was carried out the taking records in the March-June 2024 period from the 11 producers belonging to the parish. For avoiding bias in the data, they were divided by category to the animals: cows, calves, bulls and young bulls. The genetic value was got, by BLUP, which the response to the was calculated selection, by indicating the phenotype value that will be went to transmit to its offspring and how many generations will go it to achieve it, the results revealed, which some individuals, they presented a higher genetic value than the population average. By means correlating the economic weights variables and selection indices, we used scatter graphs, by taking into account, what the expense with the highest percentage is salaries with 66%, followed by feed with 14%, the average cost of milk production is $1.08 and the average monthly production is 433.3 liters/month, the variables indicate a strong negative relationship, ignoring labor costs, negatively affects profitability, due to the direct relationship between increased production and associated costs, therefore, producers will continue to have lower economic income, with higher production costs. In conclusion, the importance by implementing genetic improvement programs taking into account economic and productive factors is utmost importance, since producers need to benefit directly from their livestock herds by improving the profitability and sustainability each one them.