“…These policies must contemplate subsidies, investments in research, preferential credit, crop insurance, bonding, infrastructure development, and technology transfer (Gómez-Oliver, 1994). Several authors agreed on the fact that technology transfer processes reside on use of improved agricultural inputs, up-to-date technology, and innovation (Gómez-Oliver, 1995;Jover, 1999;Muñoz-Rodríguez et al, 2001;Barradas et al, 2002;Leeuwis, 2004;Sabater, 2010;Ponce, 2013;Trigo et al, 2013;Cruz and Polanco, 2014;Larqué-Saavedra et al, 2014;CONEVAL, 2015;Rendón-Medel et al, 2015;Amaro-Rosales and Gortari-Rabiela, 2016a;Solleiro et al, 2017).…”