Operational proposal for agricultural land management

The Land and Agrarian Development Law (2010) sought to create a legal framework in Venezuela that would guarantee agri-food security. This initiative must be accompanied by managerial knowledge on the part of producers in order to ensure that agricultural estates fulfil their social function and that the land reaches the ideal yields established in the Law. In this sense, this research was carried out with the objective of proposing guidelines for agricultural land management that can be applied by producers and that allow them to respond to the productivity criteria required by the Law. To this end, the managing producers of 43 production units were interviewed by means of a questionnaire in which a characterisation of land management was carried out, as well as the determination of the levels of Ideal Yield and Real Yield by soil class, using descriptive statistics. The results showed deficiencies in the fulfilment of planning, organisation and control functions, but adequate management-execution indicators.