The promotion of family sheep-farming in Mexico through subsidies in assets: lessons learned.

Authors

  • Enrique Genaro Martínez-González Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM)
  • Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM)
  • José Guadalupe García-Muñiz Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Posgrado en Producción Animal del Departamento de Zootecnia
  • Víctor Horacio Santoyo-Cortés Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM)
  • J. Reyes Altamirano-Cárdenas Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM)
  • Constantino Romero-Márquez Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15517/am.v22i2.11830

Keywords:

Sheep, subsidies, innovation management, effi ciency of public spending.

Abstract

The objective

of this work was to determine the impact of subsidies given

in assets for the purchase of productive actives in familiar

sheep production units (UPF) in the state of Mexico.

A survey was carried-out among 58 sheep farmers in a

population of 475 benefi ciaries, from January to March

of 2007. Seventeen months after subsidy release, 16% of

UPF were closed, 48% were stable or growing, and 36%

were contracting. Herd dynamics could be explained on

the basis of previous experience of the sheep farmer, the

capacity of the UPF to produce the feed required by the

herd, the adoption of new innovative and good practices the

production system, the network of knowledge to which the

farmer belongs, the sheep quality offered by the network of

livestock providers; and the conception of the activity of

the producer himself, as savings or as a business. Subsidies

directed to this activity did not increase productive capacity

of the herds, and did not generate wealth or employment.

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Martínez-González, E. G., Muñoz-Rodríguez, M., García-Muñiz, J. G., Santoyo-Cortés, V. H., Altamirano-Cárdenas, J. R., & Romero-Márquez, C. (2011). The promotion of family sheep-farming in Mexico through subsidies in assets: lessons learned. Agronomía Mesoamericana, 22(2), 367–377. https://doi.org/10.15517/am.v22i2.11830