Estrategias metodológicas para el análisis de la reconversión y diversificación productiva de regiones cañeras

Abstract

Sugar has been the major commercial product from sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Production of the sweetener in Mexico depends on three factors: a) the amount and quality of the industrialized sugar cane, b) sugar mill yield, and c) the installed capacity and crushing capacity in sugar mills. However, the analysis of production factors affecting their competitiveness (productivity and diversification capacities) has been carried without considering the spatial and temporal distribution and agro ecological aptitude of sugarcane regions and others socioeconomic constraints.  This study to identify using the multicriteria method AHP (Analytic Hierarchy) in a GIS and participatory techniques, as suitable tools for analyzing complex systems, the key factors that determine the potential of sugarcane supply areas to establish diversification projects are sugarcane land suitability, sugarcane yield and farm size account for 78% of the potential of sugar cane regions. However, for sugarcane growers diversification it is known but still unattractive.