Evaluacion Financiera de dos sistemas de riego, goteo y gravedad en el cultivo de caña de azucar en Zapotiltic, Jalisco, Mexico

Faced with the imminent opening up of the trade in México in 2008, cultivation sugarcane (Sacchrum spp.) It has a strong competitive pressure from other producing countries thatare operating with cost and low prices. Hence the need to seek production alternatives thatcould improve the profitability and competitiveness of this crop. For this propose was raised inthis paper which compares the production systems of drip irrigation (high-tech) and irrigationby gravity (traditional technology). To performe the evaluation was used prior to the technicalevaluation methodology for determinig the financial Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and NetPresent. To make risk analysis, Trusts Institutions regarding Agriculture, it was used twopackages that use computer simulation of the Monte Carlo Masters Risk and Risk. In this studywe have used the program Risk, which was developed by the staff of FIRA, obtainig an internalrate of return IRR of 15.4% and 14.5% respectively, and a net present value (NPV) of$11,475.00 per hectare in irrigated by gravity. Keywords: Cost of production, financial analysis, sugarcane.