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Abstract
To identify productive characteristics through the technological indicators adopted by goats farmers at the Comondú municipality, state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. A survey consisting of semi-structured questions was designed to obtain multi-criteria information on the variables of technological, economic, social, and multilevel indicators. The production units (PUs) were classified by the cluster analysis of means statistical method in the SAS software, allowing to identify four groups of producers of 10.33, 69, 10.33, and 10.33 % of them. The social indicator demonstrated differences between UPs regard their education level, non-inclusion of women in the activity, total annual income, and whether or not they are members of an association. The technological indicator revealed differences in their distance from the UPs to the community, road conditions, area of the UP, available area for planting, water sources, herd size, availability to facilities, machinery, and equipment. The economic indicator showed differences between UPs in their agricultural complementary activities, economic dependence, milk production, cheese production, animal wastes, goat production, and their respective sales values. The conclusion is that this information is useful for particularly attending to the needs and will allow defining the precise kind of intervention in the management practices or the required management.