In the last years we have attended a deep transformation in the economic structure of our country, that has brought about a strong blurring of the roles carried out by the traditional labor agents, whose consequences have worsen the prevailing inequalities between the implied actors. The present work -circumscribed to the area bordering the city of Río Cuarto, in the Argentine Pampean Region- constitutes an approach to the interference which agriculture industries and agriculture business companies have on the primary agricultural activity by means of the exploitation of lands owned, rented, in society, etc. To achieve this purpose associations of diverse nature among the different actors from the rural world have been set up through a complex framework of socioeconomic relations. Our main aim is to detect the economic power of agriculture industries and agriculture business companies on the farm structure, emphasizing in its operative forms of work in relation to the agricultural primary exploitation and in the socioeconomic effects that it triggers, specially among the small producers. As well, we try to unravel the roll and the strategies of adaptation developed for these producers. On the other hand, the progressive space transformations produced as a result of these processes are analyzed. The stated transformations have taken to intensify the integration processes, demonstrating a significant change of roles of the traditional actors and the incorporation of new agents with hegemonic tendency on the previous ones. This phenomenon is accompanied of unusual increases in the production and important social inequalities and territorial disarticulations.
Río Cuarto; agriculture industries; agriculture business companies; farm structure; socioterritorial modifications
