Assessment of the agro-industrial sugar yield of sugar mills in Mexico

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  • J. Reyes Altamirano-Cárdenas Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial-Universidad Autónoma Chapingo Carretera México-Texcoco km 38.5, Texcoco, Estado de México. CP. 56230. Tel. 595 9521613
  • Fermín Sandoval-Romero División de Ciencias Administrativas-Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. Carretera México-Texcoco km 38.5. Chapingo, Texcoco, Estado de México. CP. 56230. Tel. 595 9521500, ext. 1668
  • Cristóbal Martín Cuevas-Alvarado Consultor/Investigador Independiente. Calle Arboledas 28, Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México, México. CP. 56264. Tel. 595 9211492
  • Blanca Margarita Montiel-Batalla Instituto de Ciencias Agrícolas-Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Carretera a Delta s/n, Ejido Nuevo León, Mexicali, Baja California. CP. 21705. Tel. 686 5230088, ext. 45936

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v16i5.3735

Keywords:

composed error, sucrose in sugarcane, sugar per hectare, technical inefficiency

Abstract

In Mexico, sugarcane is important to guarantee the food sufficiency of standard sugar. This work aimed to evaluate the technical inefficiency of the agro-industrial sugar yield of the sugar mills in Mexico for the 2022-2023 harvest in order to identify the most inefficient sugarcane production units. The model used was the stochastic frontier analysis approach. The results showed that, of the 39 mills analyzed, a group of six mills showed the lowest performance in their agro-industrial yield of standard sugar indicator in the study harvest. These sugar mills and their respective efficiency were Puga (89.3%), Alianza Popular (88.9%), Plan de San Luis (88.5%), Plan de Ayala (88.3%), Progreso (85.6%), and El Mante (84.9%). The technical inefficiency of these six production units is greater than 10% and is due to inadequate management and poor production practices and not to random variables such as the climate. The main conclusion of the research is that 88.3% of the relative technical inefficiency in the agro-industrial yield of sugar per unit area is attributable to causes of the internal environment of such companies and only 11.7% to random factors outside the sugar mills.

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2025-08-25

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Altamirano-Cárdenas, J Reyes, Fermín Sandoval-Romero, Cristóbal Martín Cuevas-Alvarado, and Blanca Margarita Montiel-Batalla. 2025. “Assessment of the Agro-Industrial Sugar Yield of Sugar Mills in Mexico”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Agrícolas 16 (5). México, ME:e3735. https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v16i5.3735.

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