Abstract

GARCIA-DOMINGUEZ, José Uriel et al. Description and analysis of coffee producers from the Mixe region, Oaxaca. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.7, pp.1235-1247.  Epub Mar 22, 2022. ISSN 2007-0934.  https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v12i7.2781.

Diagnoses of the members of agricultural productive sectors provide information to generate strategies and public policies that strengthen them, according to their contexts. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze coffee producers based on social, productive, economic aspects and their perception of coffee farming. The information was obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted between November 2018 and March 2019 with producers (n= 40) from the Mixe region, Oaxaca, selected through a non-probabilistic sampling. The information was analyzed with descriptive statistics, hierarchical cluster analysis, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson χ2 and principal component analysis. The results showed that producers carry out coffee farming with social, economic and productive disadvantages, where investment in coffee plantation renewal (χ2= 0), area in production (χ2= 0), sale of coffee (χ2 =0), perception of coffee farming as a production option (χ2= 0.001), age of producers (χ2= 0), years of experience (χ2 =0) and the degree of education (χ2= 0) explain the conformation of dissatisfied (37.5%), undecisive (22.5%) and satisfied (40%) producers. Producers have social, productive and economic deficiencies that manifest themselves in a subsistence coffee farming, agroecosystems that tend to reduce their agrobiodiversity, with a partial strategy of pests and diseases, and deficient commercial structures that lead to a perception of this productive activity where the majority is dissatisfied and indecisive.

Keywords : coffee growers; organization; principal component analysis.