@article{Bryant:10952,
      recid = {10952},
      author = {Bryant, Elizabeth},
      title = {A REVIEW OF RECENT CHANGES IN MEXICAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY:   IMPLICATIONS FOR SMALL SCALE BEAN PRODUCTION},
      address = {1992},
      number = {1097-2016-88812},
      series = {Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers},
      pages = {141},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {Until the early 1980s, Mexican economic policy was  characterized by import substitution industrialization.  Agriculture's role was to provide a cheap and abundant food  supply for the urban sector, and to generate foreign  exchange through exports. While Mexico achieved  food
self-sufficiency by the early 1960s, conflicting  policies succeeded in undermining basic grain production  and exacerbating an existent dichotomy between traditional  and rainfed production. Austerity measures imposed during  the 1980s resulting from the collapse of world oil prices  further undermined small-scale production. 

These effects  are viewed in the context of the bean subsector,  characterized by a bimodal system of production; while the  majority of Mexican bean producers are small-scale farmers,  most beans are produced on commercial, mechanized farms.  Although bean production was affected by mounting inflation  during the '70s and '80s, in which static producer prices  overrode government subsidies, large scale winter producers  benefitted from two-part pricing, begun in the 1980s.  

Under the Salinas administration, producer prices for  beans have risen in recent years, and the Mexican  government is embarking on a new rural development program.  More importantly, the advent of the North American Free  Trade Agreement spells profound changes for the bean  subsector. During the 15 year interim period in which  tariffs for beans will be phased out, the Mexican  government must decide either to invest in increasing the  bean sector's productivity, or merely ensure that Mexican  consumers have a cheap supply of beans--regardless of  whether they
are imported or domestically produced.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10952},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.10952},
}