Análisis comparativo de costos y Rentabilidad del cultivo de sábila (Aloe barbadensis Miller)

Abstract

Comparative analysis of cost and profitability of Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller) cultivation. Mexico is one of the main producers of extracts and concentrated of Aloe Vera in the world. The preparation of strategic plans to confront the world competence is limited for shortage of competitive ness and profitability indicators of value of this commodity in the international environment. By this reason the presented objective proposed for this research was to determine this type of indicators for Aloe Vera crop in the countries that participate with Mexico in the world market. As hypothesis was considered that Aloe Vera leaf production is more profitable in Mexico in comparison with other countries, this is produced by the greater productivity. The analysis profitability aloe compared four countries in function to the applied technological packages, establishment and production costs, product price, gross profit and financial levels of performance of the invested capital. Mexico presents com petitive advantages in technical conditions for the production, physical yields and establishment costs (investment). Nevertheless, it presents weaknesses in terms of operation costs by the highest prices in the labor and land resources. Inside one more aggregate analysis as it is the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), these results support the presented hypothesis.