Backyard Agricultural Production as a Strategy for Strengthening Local Economy: The Case of Chontla and Tempoal, Mexico

Fabiola Sánchez-Galván, Horacio Bautista-Santos, José Luis Martínez-Flores, Diana Sánchez-Partida, Arely del Rocio Ireta-Paredes and Gregorio Fernández-Lambert
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Fabiola Sánchez-Galván: Postgraduate and Research Department, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Tantoyuca, Desviación Lindero Tametate S/N, Colonia La Morita, C.P. Tantoyuca, 92100 Veracruz, Mexico
Horacio Bautista-Santos: Postgraduate and Research Department, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Tantoyuca, Desviación Lindero Tametate S/N, Colonia La Morita, C.P. Tantoyuca, 92100 Veracruz, Mexico
José Luis Martínez-Flores: Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Calle 21 Sur 1103, Barrio de Santiago, C.P. 72410 Puebla, 72410 Puebla, Mexico
Diana Sánchez-Partida: Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Calle 21 Sur 1103, Barrio de Santiago, C.P. 72410 Puebla, 72410 Puebla, Mexico
Arely del Rocio Ireta-Paredes: Department of Agro-industrial Engineering, Universidad Interserrana del Estado de Puebla-Ahuacatlán, Los Llanos Km 1 San Andrés Tlayehualancingo, C.P. 73330, Ahuacatlán, 73330 Puebla, Mexico
Gregorio Fernández-Lambert: Graduate and Innovation Studies Division, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Misantla, Km 1,8 Carretera a Loma del Cojolite S/n. C.P. 93821, Misantla, 93821 Veracruz, Mexico

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-13

Abstract: In order to define chain strategies for a backyard agricultural production system, this study identified agricultural products produced by high development priority communities with indigenous presence located in the Chontla and Tempoal municipalities in Veracruz, Mexico. The production system was integrated into a generic model decomposing the supply chain into hierarchical components. Data were collected through a face-to-face semistructured questionnaire based on statistical sampling of rural households, backyard producers, intermediaries, retailers, and wholesalers, as well as municipal authorities. The research was carried out from January 2017 to June 2018 and a computational program was designed to analyze the data. As a result, products were identified and their production destinations were quantified. Moreover, it revealed a backyard agricultural supply chain of five echelons with opportunities for improvement in areas such as unstructured agricultural processes and practices, inappropriate product storage and handling, and the lack of production records, and up to three intermediaries that sequentially drove up product cost in regional consumption centers. In this study, 20.9% of total production was destined for sale, 34.8% for self-consumption, and 44.2% was noncommercialized. Nopal, creole pumpkin, coriander, plum, passion fruit, and jobo were products with greater economic value for noncommercialized production. An improvement strategy would be to build inclusive agro-food chains through consolidated centers of backyard agricultural products.

Keywords: Inclusive agro-food chains; backyard agricultural profitability; short productive chains; high development priority communities; indigenous presence communities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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