An Assessment of the Economic Contribution of Agricultural Exports in Mexico during the First Export Era, 1880–1929

 

Up until now, the few studies dealing with Mexico’s exports in the first export era have focused on the mining and the oil industry, as they are not only the more notorious, but also those that provide more abundant quantitative indicators for their analysis. The purpose of my paper will be to study agricultural exports and their economic contribution. As these activities were more dispersed and the information available on them is more fragmentary, an attempt will be made at suggesting some criteria to evaluate their contribution to the Mexican economy.