VIABILIDAD ECONÓMICA SUSTENTABLE DE LA PRODUCCIÓN DE GRANJAS DE CAMARÓN EN MÉXICO

Aquaculture has increased its social and economic impact in the world through food production, income generation, as well as the supply of offspring for the repopulation of threatened or overexploited aquatic species (Medina, 2015). According to CONAPESCA (2017). In 2017, Mexico was the seventh largest producer of farmed shrimp in the world. In Mexico, Sinaloa is the leader in national production (37%). Thus, the purpose of the research was to analyze the economic viability of Production Representative Units (URP) of shrimp in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa.

The information was obtained in the summer period of the year 2022 in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa, through the producer panel technique (Sagarnaga-Villegas et al., 2018). This technique allows obtaining the economic, financial and flow costs net of cash or disbursed. A 70-hectare URP was built for shrimp farming. Detailed information was collected on costs, classified as disbursed, financial and economic, prices, income and performance.

Table 2 shows the costs and income obtained by the URP; the most probable price and yield were considered, $62 per kg and 1 t ha-1, respectively. In this way, considering the economic costs, the shrimp is produced at a cost of $58.77 per kg, so that at a price of $62 per kg, all costs are covered and a profit of 3.23 pesos per kg is obtained.

CONAPESCA. (2017). Statistical Yearbook of Aquaculture and Fisheries.

Medina, M. (2015). Strategic actions for the value network of farmed tilapia in the state of Jalisco. Chapingo Autonomous University.

Sagarnaga-Villegas, L. M., Salas-González, J. M., & Aguilar-Ávila, J. (2018). Methodology to estimate costs, income and financial and economic viability in representative production units Volume 6; Series: Chapingo Autonomous University (UACh).