Analysis of the impact of the Sembrando Vida program in agricultural production in Mexico

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Objective: determine the impact of the Sembrando Vida program on corn and bean production in the eight states where the program was first implemented.

Methodology: 64 structural analysis tests were conducted with dichotomous variables (using control variables) to determine whether the Sowing Life program impacted corn and bean production in Puebla, Durango, Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán, in the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Results: the Sembrando Vida program has not been successful in impacting corn production in seven of the eight states examined and, in the case of beans, it did not impact in six of the eight states analyzed. The exception in corn was the State of Quintana Roo in 2022; and, in the case of beans, it was Quintana Roo in 2019 and 2022 and Durango in 2019, 2021 and 2022.

Limitations on study: Fruit trees, which is the third product supported by the Sembrando Vida program, were not examined; each State was not characterized; and the States to which the program was expanded were not analyzed.

Conclusions: the objective of the research was achieved because it was determined that in general the Sembrando Vida program had no impact on corn and bean production (with exceptions); and that government programs need to be restructured so that they have a greater effect.