Alfonso Gonzalez, “Problems of Agricultural Development in a Pioneer Region of Southwestern Coastal Mexico,” Revista Geografica 64 (June 1966), 29-52.
Notes
- 40 – “A major problem of further economic development in the study area is the prevailing use of relatively primitive agricultural techniques by the great majority of the farmers. As a consequence the yields obtained in the study area leave much room for improvement as they are considerably below those of the advanced regions of the world and in some cases, most importantly that of maize, even below the already low world average.”
- 41 – “The mechanization of many of the operations is slowly being introduced on the larger private units and the ejidos. Since many of the farmers are unable to purchase the necessary machinery and equipment it appears likely that much of the mechanization, at least in the near future, will continue to occur on these larger units or on a cooperative basis. Furthermore, since agricultural labor is quite cheap and there seems to be no problem about recruitment of a labor supply there is little impetus for mechanization. Nevertheless, the increasing tendency of migration toward the larger settlements, and consequently, into non-farm occupations, along with the acknowledged advantages of mechanization over manual labor, at least in some operations, have resulted in the increased use of machinery.”
