Economic viability of the implementation of good agricultural practices in onion production
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https://doi.org/10.22231/asyd.v19i1.861Keywords:
certificación, comercio internacional, hortalizas, paneles, rentabilidadAbstract
The objective of this study was to estimate the gap in the costs of production units that implement good agricultural practices (GAP) in onion production and those that do not, in two of the principal producing states of this vegetable in Mexico, through a cost analysis and the construction of representative production units (RPUs), with the purpose of contributing to the development of strategies to promote the adoption of GAP protocols among small and medium scale onion producers. The results evidence that the RPUs that have GAP certification are larger, have higher yields, incur in fixed unitary costs ($.t-1) up to 40 % higher and variable costs slightly more than 20% lower, compared to the RPUs that do not have GAP certification. These parameters allow certified RPUs to recover up to 2.25 dollars for each dollar they invest, while the RPUs that do not have certification recover 16 cents. The support for GAP certification could help relatively poor farmers to gain access to export markets in a profitable way, thus providing a development strategy for some segments of the rural population.
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