Productive potential: tools that contribute to the food sovereignty of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the State of Mexico

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.9734724310510

• Palavras-chave: potencial alto, potencial médio, producción, hectáreas, consumo aparente.

• Keywords: high potential, medium potential, production, hectares, apparent consumption.

• Abstract:

  The institutional mandate of INIFAP is to generate agricultural and forestry technologies to increase productivity through the productive potential technique. The bean was chosen because it is an important crop in the Mexican diet and the most populated entity, the State of Mexico, and according to the National Population Commission in 2023 there will be 17,500,000 inhabitants. The Rural Development Districts that are of interest for bean cultivation are: Toluca, Texcoco, Tejupilco, Atlacomulco, Coatepec de Harinas, Valle de Bravo and Jilotepec. Two types of productive potential were considered: medium and high. The objective of the work was to determine the productive potential for beans in thousands of hectares to contribute to the food sovereignty of this product in the basic basket of the country's most needy consumers. The methodology for determining productive potential was based on the detection of three categories and nine variables: climate (maximum, average and minimum temperatures and rainfall); soil (depth, texture and pedology) and topography (altitude and slope). The amount of 694.4 thousand hectares susceptible to being planted with this grass were identified with medium and high productive potential. The main DDRs with high productive potential were Atlacomulco with 39.0%, Jilotepec with 20.0%, and Texcoco with 17.4%, between them they add up. almost three quarters (76.4%) of the surface area susceptible to planting with beans. Finally, the detections of these agricultural areas can be included within government programs to support bean producers and thus increase their income levels to contribute to greater well-being and improve their living conditions.