Agriculture Competition Among Mexico and USA Borders.

Los Angeles area is maybe the biggest marked for vegetables all around the world. A strong competition between Mexican and USA vegetable producers for this marked is expressed through how the environment is used, a different crops pattern, the infrastructure for production and different commercial and economic policies. A lot of agriculture producers in Mexico export their vegetables to California. They are close to the border or even far away as Veracruz, Guerrero or Oaxaca at the south of the Mexican territory. On the Mexican side it is possible to find very big greenhouses or nethouses with medium to sophisticated technology and selection and fridges facilities for vegetable conservation. On the USA side this type of structures are difficult to find, at least close to the Baja California and Sonora borders. Mexican producers grow vegetables that require a lot of workers like tomatoes, asparagus, onions, chilies, cabbages, little spinach and carrots, etc., and also durum wheat. American rancheros have to grow crops that not need a lot workers like wheat, alfalfa, broccoli, Sudan grass, citric trees, etc. But these rancheros have better ground machinery, grain silos and field infrastructure like water pipe drainage, irrigation systems, rods and general warehouses. Also, rancheros use meteorology information for better decision making. On the Mexican side producers are more like enterprises, where even some American capital is inverted for producing vegetables. Rancheros are producers that have to grow different types of crops at the same time to avoid market problems when there is over production for one of them. The cost of labor is maybe the principal factor that affects the competition between Mexican producers and rancheros on both sides of the border for the market at California. A worker in Mexico costs only 8-10 dollars a day, while a ranchero pays 9-12 dollars an hour.