Strategy of producers in southern Yucatan to insert themselves into the market economy
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https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v12i2.2544Keywords:
conventional economy, family farming, production strategies, sources of incomeqAbstract
The purpose of this article is to highlight the case of producers of a community in southern Yucatan, who follow a strategy based on obtaining income within their production unit, which generally rootes them in their community. The objective is to characterize the family farming of the community of Yáaxhom, Yucatan, and analyze the behaviour of producers, through monetary income, to solve their daily economic problem. For the characterization of the community, the general method for the multilateral agriculture study was followed, while to obtain the net monetary income, the conventional economic theory of income and costs was adapted to the production units that do not behave as companies, and a statistical sample of the community was obtained. The results suggest that the integration of a nearby market, availability of natural resources, organization of producers, government support and development of polycultures, have made producers not interested in abandoning their production units. The origin of income within the production unit is diversified and flows practically all year round. The promotion by authorities of similar strategies in other regions can inhibit country-city emigration.
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