In the '90s, Argentine agriculture underwent a structural and technological change. The emergence of China as one of the main consumers of the global food market resulted in a new boost for the sector.
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Starting in the 1990s, a notable structural and technological change took place in Argentine agriculture, with a 144% increase in grain production yields between 1990/1991 and 2006/2007, which implied a direct increase of 9% annually; and because of this, it surpassed 96 million tons in the 2007/2008 campaign. A new mode of production This was the work of a new mode of production, and the emergence of new productive units of larger size and high capital investment, without this implying any type of concentration of property; and it was this new system that unleashed an extraordinary productivity boom. As is usual in the great processes of capitalist change, there was an exceptional rise in specialization in the new productive structure, with the emergence of a dense universe of contractors – independent specialists –; and for every 10 rural producers, an independent contractor of machinery and other services emerged. Thus, "pools" of sowing appeared as the main productive units, ...
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