La localización de la agricultura y los cambios del uso de la tierra en México

Once the revolution was attained and agrarian reform set up, it was necessary to increase and diversify the production of food and raw materials to satisfy the demand that came to unknown levels as a result of urban growth and recent industrial development. Lands surrounding the metropolitan zone were submitted to more intensive uses and roads and dams, extending to the periphery, incorporated large zones to the "hinterland" of the central metropolitan region. Marking that the increase of agricultural produce was due to joined and cumulative effects of social institutional, economic and technical reformation, the author considers that the cumulative character of economic development –which acquires more impulse as it going its way- makes believe that as well as better techniques are adopted, a largest rate will grow, driving away all the agricultural limitations that refrain mexican economic development
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas