Abstract

MARTINEZ-CASTANEDA, Francisco Ernesto; GARCIA-MATIAS, Francisco  and  VELAZQUEZ-TORRES, Ana Luisa. Competitiveness of avocado (Persea americana Mill) in Mexican tropical rain forest region. Terra Latinoam [online]. 2022, vol.40, e947.  Epub Nov 28, 2022. ISSN 2395-8030.  https://doi.org/10.28940/terra.v40i0.947.

The avocado is considered as a profitable production system and job generator. This fruit is part of the policy of productive reconversion of the State of Mexico. The objective was to evaluate the profitability and competitiveness at private prices of small-scale in the Tropical Forest Region of the Mexico. the policy analysis matrix was used in its first line. The system were agruped into distances and ages. The highest profitability was $ 23 726 mexican pesos in young systems with distance of 6 meters and the worst performance was $ -24 438 mexican pesos in system of 8 meters distance and from 7 to 9 years of age. The system between 4 and 6 years of age are profitable and competitive favors the expansion of the cultivar. The plantations older than 10 years of age recorder negative indicators. The yield was evaluated with a split-plot design. No statistical difference in yield between the plantations.

Keywords : productive system; profitability; productive reconversion.

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