Beef Marketing Circuits in Chiapas, Mexico and Its Contribution to Food Security
The growth and development of animals for human consumption are indispensable biological processes related to meat production and food security. We analyze the meat marketing circuits in Chiapas, Mexico, providing quantitative and qualitative information in order to understand and strengthen alliances among actors in the productive chain. Results show the existence of levels of cattle production, and meat marketing, processing, and sales. Support services to actors throughout the productive chain are provided by three cattle raising associations, two municipal slaughterhouses, and a federal inspection slaughterhouse. Four marketing circuits exist which are well-differentiated with respect to number and type of actors; these actors participate in the production-purchase-sale relation, marketed product, and final destination market. The circuit involving the greatest number of live animals is that in which weaned calves are marketed for fattening. In all circuits, the greatest marketing margin is obtained by intermediaries who participate in the marketing level. The principal beneficiaries are regional and national wholesale buyers of the shortest circuit. Producers are organized in local and regional cattle raising associations, while marketing agents do not have any type of organization. A public policy of permanent support is required in order to strengthen alliances among actors, as well as a competitiveness strategy oriented toward differentiating products based on quality. With this, the current productive chain may gradually transit toward a chain of value that promotes food security and sustainability
Beef Marketing Circuits in Chiapas, Mexico and Its Contribution to Food Security
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.973572529107
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Palavras-chave: production-marketing- processing circuits, marketing margin, levels of the productive chain, intermediaries, food security.
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Keywords: production-marketing- processing circuits, marketing margin, levels of the productive chain, intermediaries, food security.
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Abstract: The growth and development of animals for human consumption are indispensable biological processes related to meat production and food security. We analyze the meat marketing circuits in Chiapas, Mexico, providing quantitative and qualitative information in order to understand and strengthen alliances among actors in the productive chain. Results show the existence of levels of cattle production, and meat marketing, processing, and sales. Support services to actors throughout the productive chain are provided by three cattle raising associations, two municipal slaughterhouses, and a federal inspection slaughterhouse. Four marketing circuits exist which are well-differentiated with respect to number and type of actors; these actors participate in the production-purchase-sale relation, marketed product, and final destination market. The circuit involving the greatest number of live animals is that in which weaned calves are marketed for fattening. In all circuits, the greatest marketing margin is obtained by intermediaries who participate in the marketing level. The principal beneficiaries are regional and national wholesale buyers of the shortest circuit. Producers are organized in local and regional cattle raising associations, while marketing agents do not have any type of organization. A public policy of permanent support is required in order to strengthen alliances among actors, as well as a competitiveness strategy oriented toward differentiating products based on quality. With this, the current productive chain may gradually transit toward a chain of value that promotes food security and sustainability
- Jose Nahed Toral
- Julio Cesar Calderón-Pérez
- Daniel Grande-Cano
- Bernardo Sánchez-Muñoz
- Roberto Aguilar-Jiménez
- Ingrid Abril Valdivieso-Pérez
- Emmanuel Valencia-Barrera
- Romeo Trujillo-Vázquez
- Balente Herrera-Hernández
- María Guadalupe Pérez-Escobar
- Manuel Roberto Parra-Vázquez
