ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Authors express their gratitude to the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) for financing this work through the Research Project Grant 2003-CO2-42498 “Competitiveness of the Dairy Chain in the Mexican Highlands: Problems and Alternatives for Development” (La Competitividad de la Cadena de Lácteos en el Altiplano Mexicano: Problemática y Alternativa de Desarrollo); and for the grant for Enrique Espinosa-Ayala.

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