La cadena productiva de guanábana: una opción para el desarrollo económico en Compostela, Nayarit

Objective: Characterize Compostela’s Soursop Production Chain, describe the risks that represent areas of opportunity, and propose an Intervention Order that settled the critical control points that must be implemented to promote Mexican soursop on international markets. Methodology: The approach to calculate the optimal intervention order for the Soursop Production Chain was designed based on direct and indirect information sources and consisted of five phases. Results: Compostela’s SPC is made up of three primary links: production, processing, and marketing, involving actors for each specific task. High-risk weak points and Critical Control Points were identified. Implementing these Critical Control Points would significantly improve the Soursop Production Chain’s revenue. An intervention order designed to configure the Soursop Production Chain as a successful regional development option was built based on the relevance analysis of each Critical Control Point. Limitations: Available information regarding soursop production and post-harvest is relatively scarce. Gathering this type of information represents an area of opportunity that requires consulting the actors that make up the chain. Conclusions: Compostela’s soursop presence in international high value markets is limited by risks in the Soursop Production Chain. This fruit’s perishable nature stands out as the main risk, which is aggravated by phytosanitary risks, poor interlink coordination, outdated handling techniques, and poor storage and transportation infrastructure. A conservative estimate suggests that by implementing this Intervention Order, Soursop Production Chains’s profits would increase at least 175% in a short to medium term.