Ciudad y modernización agropecuaria

Both in Argentina as others countries, particular cities are the headquarters of the parent companies or managements of the main companies linked to inputs of industrial origin for the agricultural sector. The Río Cuarto city is constituted, through the companies installed there, in articulator of...

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Publicado en:Boletín de Estudios Geográficos
Autores principales: Finola, Alfio, Maldonado, Gabriela Inés
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Acceso en línea:https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=9315
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Sumario:Both in Argentina as others countries, particular cities are the headquarters of the parent companies or managements of the main companies linked to inputs of industrial origin for the agricultural sector. The Río Cuarto city is constituted, through the companies installed there, in articulator of the agricultural sector in the northwestern margin of the Pampa region, in the framework of the process of advancement of the agricultural frontier of marginal areas and inobedience to the expansion and densification of the global network of the transnational companies identified in this work. These companies, with their local representatives, become platforms for the introduction and deepening of scientific agriculture in the agricultural space. This process is pushed by the agribusiness model and crossed by the regime of financial capital accumulation. Thema in objective of this paper is to study the current situation of the city of Río Cuarto as a platform for the diffusion of new techniques of agricultural production, through the companies settled there that trade agrochemicals and seeds. The work is then organized in three sections: Materials and methods, Results and Discussion and Conclusions. In the first one, the methodological approach used and the various technique simplemented especially fort here cognition of the actors studied and the variables to be investigated are detailed. In Results, an analysis of the characteristics and territorial strategies of these companies is carried out. Finally, in the section of discussion and conclusions, the key aspects recognized were taken up, which allow to advance in the understanding of the role of the city of Río Cuarto as a platform for the territorialization of agricultural modernization processes.