Productivity, Comercialization and Quality of Lifein the Dairy Producers of the “Cienega” Region of Jalisco, Mexico

Josu00c3u00a9 Manuel Nu00c3u00bau00c3u00b1ez Olivera, Sandra Eva Lomelu00c3u00ad Rodru00c3u00adguez, Rodolfo Cabral Parra, Miguel u00c3u0081ngel Noriega Garcu00c3u00ada, Juan Manuel Cu00c3u00a1rdenas Gu00c3u00a1ndara, Araceli Correa Ramu00c3u00adrez

Volume 16 Issue 5

Global Journal of Science Frontier Researc

In order to determine the existing relation between the productivity of the dairy farms, the forms of commercializing the milk and the quality of life of the dairy producers in “La Cienega” region with their educational level, this study was made. In this, a total of 90 surveys were applied (30 by locality) in the three potential municipalities: Atotonilco el Alto (AA), La Barca (LB) and Tototlán (TOT). The producers were selected from the Association of Dairy Producers list in each municipality, taking into account the percentage of presence from the three established productive layers in an official way (FIRCO, 1985 and SAGARPA, 2005) in the State of Jalisco: 60, 30 and 10% for small (pp), medium (mp) and big producers (gp) respectively. On the basis of this classification, the considered producers were 54pp, 27mp and 9gp, likewise 18pp, 9mp and 3gp for each one of the three studied municipalities. The results indicate a very high relation between the educational level and productivity (r = 0.83); a medium relation between the education and the commercialization type (r = 0.52) and a good relation between the educational level with the quality of life (r = 0.67). In a general way, we can say than with greater educational level, more improvements are presented in the productive level, the milk is commercialized in an organized way and the quality of life is increased. Nevertheless, this asseveration gets us in a tight spot in the municipality, region and state levels; since the average educational level in the region is elementary school (78%), in addition that the average age is 60.3 years old, whichclearly indicates the limited education and the high age of the producers, which would explain then the tendency towards lower productive levels, the insistence in the individual work and the resistance to organize themselves for the commercialization of the milk in spite of the efforts of very diverse official and private institutions, and mainly the poor quality