Ejidal breeding and migration in the municipality of San Luis del Cordero, Durango, northern of Mexico

Extensive ejidal cattle in northern México has developed due adequate water soil and climateconditions; nevertheless, in the past few years a natural resources harm has been observed aswell as a trend of emigration of the population. The methodology utilized in this paper wassupported in a pool to ejidal cattle producers of the San Luis del Cordero County in the state ofDurango, by means of stratified random sampling based on the number of cows. Results haveshown that producers owning less than 20 cows depend mostly on remittances from emigrants.This group of producers also are less organized and with less technology for the agriculturaland cattle activities.This study presents a characterization of the ejidal cattle production system identifying themain factors that limits this activity. It is concluded that the ejidal cattle located in the middlepart of the Occidental Sierra Madre survive due the remittances of emigrants and that theeconomical growth of this people is more limited by natural causes rather than economicalsince the people is getting older and the forage availability is diminishing.