Dehydration of tropical fruits for the international market: how an agro-food cluster was born in three states of the Mexican Pacific

Abstract

The present work is a first approach to the innovation process that, based on traditional knowledge, incorporated
a series of techniques and procedures that have allowed the installation of dehydrating plants in the states of
Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa in which dehydrated mango and some other tropical fruits are produced with high
levels of quality and innocuity, which has allowed them to compete successfully in the international market,
which constitutes an agri-food cluster that integrates in a very important way the three states in Mexico.
The objective of this work is to describe, from Porter's theoretical perspective, the factors that make up the
macroenvironment and that influence the behavior of a set of dehydration plants established in the coastal zone of
the three aforementioned entities. The method on which the research is based is mixed, from the quantitative
perspective in exploratory terms and from the qualitative perspective, it is intended to characterize the way in
which this set of companies interact with each other, so that the incursion of companies marketing this type of
products in international markets is favored.