Production and Competitiveness of the Mexican floriculture

Abstract

Objective: analyze the competitiveness of the international marketing of the main flowers grown in Mexico with respect to the United States of America.

Design/methodology/approach: the cumulative growth rate from 2000 to 2020 of the production variables of the main cultivated flowers in Mexico was calculated; the balance of the country´s floriculture trade balance was evaluated and the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCAI) of the Mexican floriculture sector with respect to the United States of America was estimated.

Results: floriculture has expanded in the last two decades, the cumulative growth rates of production variables in most of the flowers studied were positive from 2000 to 2020. National floriculture is a high income activity, in 2020 the four analyzed flowers had a production value of 5.5 billion pesos, up to only 10.11 thousand hectares of land. The trade balance of floriculture in Mexico has been in surplus, the balance of the floriculture trade balance in the country was greater than 90% of the value of exports in most of the analyzed years.  Mexican floriculture is competitive in the international market, in 2020 the RCAI of Mexican flowers in the US market was 0.96 and, in general, in the period studied it has been greater than 0.8.

Limitations on study/implications: modifications in the national tariff system that make it difficult to analyze tariff fractions in the evolutionary analysis. The RCAI allows us or not to know the national market, however, it does not establish the factors that provide competitiveness to the country