Some anonaceous fruit trees of Mexico

Abstract

Felix Foex's document entitled "Some anonaceous fruit trees of Mexico" dates from 1908, identified with the Central Agricultural Station and published by the Secretariat for Government Promotion during the Porfiriato. This document is outstanding in two respects. The first has to do with its rather precise content related to the fruit trees of the family Annonaceae, Mexican species that correspond to plants whose fruit and physiological characteristics have kept them within the marginalized crops, those that have not been incorporated into the capitalist commercial farms in a widespread way, but that are cultivated and maintain a great diversity in family orchards or in agroforestry systems in the tropical and subtropical zones of our country, where a limited production is obtained that supplies the regional and national markets that complement the production of the commercial farms. The second aspect places us in the Porfirian tradition of promoting agricultural exports, one of the functions assumed by the government of the time that, despite its efforts, was unable to achieve its objectives, except in some purely commercial crops that became examples for the rest of the growers.