Socioeconomic structure of yellow corn producers in two Mexican municipalities as reference sources

Abstract

Yellow corn has gained strategic importance for the current government of Mexico due to the enormous amount of this grain that is imported, which in turn represents a large flight of capital due to the costs paid abroad to purchase it. Under these premises, work is being done to obtain a characterization of the different productive units of yellow corn in their socioeconomic structure, which allows the generation of an intervention protocol at the three levels of government, in those municipalities where it is possible to plant yellow corn, with native seeds and agroecological fertilizers. The purpose is to promote the development of rural culture, in every sense, and at the same time represents greater income for producers due to the monetary resource that will no longer go abroad and will remain in the production units. To achieve these objectives, a municipality that has planted yellow corn for several years is taken as a reference point: Ocuituco, Morelos. And another municipality that planted corn in large areas and stopped doing so: Calpulalpan, Tlaxcala.