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The present report shows the development of the internship project, carried out at the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), in the section of the department of Córdoba, Technical Direction of Seeds, where the objective was to develop the inspection activities, monitoring and control for the maintenance and application of registration for establishments distributors of agricultural inputs and/or seeds in the department of Córdoba. To this end, the technical team of the institution was accompanied in sampling seeds aimed at marketing in the department, technical visits to commercial establishments as sanitary police, where the quality and safety of the seed lots was controlled willing to be traded. Likewise, the identification of cultivars planted in the department was carried out through the records taken in the sampling. Updating of databases of commercial establishments distributing seeds and/or active inputs with registration and without registration of ICA in the department, where record the general details of the establishment, the ICA register and the date of the last technical visit carried out. The establishments visited were quantified and geo-referenced (Google Maps App) in each municipality inspected. Thirty-five establishments were visited, of which the large establishments fully met the standard, and the medium and small establishments met the minimum requirements for record-keeping. Likewise, during the visit to the company Diabonos, the laboratory results to the sampled batches were in the optimal standards for marketing.

The practice was carried out in Urabá Antioqueño, exactly in the Casco farm belonging to the C.I Tropical S.A. business group. The objective was to carry out an accompaniment in the diagnosis, training and subsequent evaluation of the cultural work required in the cultivation of bananas to increase their efficiency, since there was a high rate of rejection for an inadequate technical operation. Therefore, it was necessary to train the operators, where the correct way to perform the tasks was specified, in order to give a complete rethinking of the established procedures, generating a constant improvement in the execution of each task to obtain a product of excellent quality and a minimum rejection. The different evaluation formats of work available to the group were used and the "pogo" method was implemented, which allows for the random selection of plants in a controlled manner. The "pogo" consists of taking an area of the lot at random and enclosing it in a frame of 30m by 30m in total gives an area of 900m2 within which we proceeded to evaluate 30 plants also taken at random, the parameters to evaluate were; moorage, bagging, deflowering, leaf removal, removal of the roots, debris, deflection of spikes, deflection of the bunch, etc. These tasks are known as fruit protection and it was here that the greatest inconsistencies were found. Fertilization, weed control, and drainage maintenance were evaluated generally by lots. These did not present major inconsistencies because they were done on time and in a controlled manner by the field coordinators