Abstract

MORALES-HERNANDEZ, José Luis; GONZALEZ-RAZO, Felipe de Jesús  and  HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, Juvencio. Function of beef cattle production in the South region of Mexico State. Rev. mex. de cienc. pecuarias [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.1, pp.1-13. ISSN 2448-6698.  https://doi.org/10.22319/rmcp.v9i1.4345.

In 2014-2015 it was estimated a production function that relates the total quantity of meat produced from natural grassland, total animals and food spending. This was on 117 small and medium livestock business (Pymes, for Spanish acronym) in four municipalities of southern State of Mexico, which served as the base to estimate the Cobb Douglas production function, analyzed by mean squares. This study determined a production function to measure a resource efficiency, in three stratums: small, medium and large producers under the concept of the Pymes. For stratums: I, with 2.6 to 26.5 ha and II, with 28 to 94 ha, has to increase the factors of production in a certain proportion, the production grows less proportionately than inputs. Stratum III, 113 to 424 ha, showed that increasing factors in a certain proportion meat production would grow at a higher rate; economic indicators of meat production were calculated. Family opportunity costs and beef prices are factors that give profits to producers and allow staying in the meat market in the Central part of the country.

Keywords : Cobb Douglas; Pymes; Costs; Administration; Accounting record.