Minifundios, monocultivo e inundaciones. Una visión geográfica de los problemas agrícolas chaqueños en el siglo XX

Abstract

Like result of the interaction of multiple geographic circumstances, it has been developed in the province of the Chaco, in the

north of the Argentine Republic, the cotton culture. The agricultural reality of this territory has implied a series of recurrent

problems whose examination constitutes the main objective of this work.

To the specialization in a very demanding culture and of very oscillating and unstable commercial demand, it was added, in

the case chaqueño, the predominance of small producers and the recurrence of unfavorable natural phenomena (floods),

particularly in second half of century XX. The agricultural sector responded trying diversifications, but the result meant,

basically, the alternancia of crisis and temporal successes to return to the dependency of the cotton.