Classification of the agricultural frontier of Mexico in accordance with the slope

In this work, the agricultural land-cover polygons developed by the Agri-food and Fisheries Information Service (SIAP by its acronym in Spanish) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER by its acronym in Spanish) were classified, their main characteristic is the distinction between irrigated and rainfed lands. The studied area includes the entire national territory. 1) We worked on a study universe of more than 360 thousand agricultural polygons. 2) 10 types of slope or representative cells of the relief with a resolution of 1 km for the national scale. 3) Of which it can be summarized that 5.0 % of the national territory corresponds to rainfed agriculture settled on lands with a slope less than 6°, also 3.0 % of the national territory corresponds to irrigated agriculture on lands with a slope less than 6°, while 5.4 % of the national territory corresponds to rainfed agriculture settled on lands with a slope greater than 6°, while only 1.8 % of the national territory corresponds to irrigated agriculture on lands with a slope greater than 6°.