Estudios Fronterizos (Jul 2003)
Changes in agricultural policies and social rural property in the northern border
Abstract
The national and foreign capital did not arrive to the country in the terms that government was expected; in that way farmers from social and private sector did not get insert into specialized and directed project towards exports. This generated an undercapitalization on small, medium and big farmers that work to aim production at domestic market. Communal property on North Border of Mexico is doing important yet, and it will be to exist for long time despite the changes in Agricultural Policy, and basically by the change in Constitutional 27th Article from January 1992, and the passing law about the Agrarian Act on February 1992. The organization of the producers as much as social as private sector is on recession, and most of producers individually work with their own resources or financial means. This has been doing difficult to their integration to productive projects. The aim of this paper is to analyze those under gone changes by the rural property (namely ejidos, communities, agro and farm colonies) of northern Mexico associated to the new agricultural policy.