insurrección

Big soy fields begin to expand along Uruguay and they have recently entered the outskirts of the capital, displacing intensive horticulture production. They used to be relegated to the country’s western coastline. Cuchilla de Rocha is only 50 kilometers off the Montevideo port, in Canelones department. It is the largest city of Sauce, a rural area considered to be the capital of several strategic productions of the Uruguayan farms: tomato, viticulture, fruticulture and horticulture in its different varieties get fresh to the urban consumer. The successive crises of the farming sectors, the endebtedness with banking institutions, the lack of policies that promote family farming and the populations that have the traditional knowledge have turned old, this has led to the abandonment of large extensions of land close to the population of the area. Soy agribusiness is expanding with its technological package.

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