RELACIóN ENTRE AGROINDUSTRIAS Y EMPRESAS AGROCOMERCIALES CON LA EXPLOTACIóN PRIMARIA AGRíCOLA EN EL áREA ALEDA A A LA CIUDAD DE RíO CUARTO, REPúBLICA ARGENTINA. MODIFICACIONES SOCIO-TERRITORIALES

In the last years we have attended a deep transformation in the economic structure of our country, thathas 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 PampeanRegion– constitutes an approach to the interference which agriculture industries and agriculture businesscompanies 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 fromthe 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 companieson the farm structure, emphasizing in its operative forms of work in relation to the agricultural primaryexploitation and in the socioeconomic effects that it triggers, specially among the small producers. Aswell, we try to unravel the roll and the strategies of adaptation developed for these producers. On theother 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 significantchange of roles of the traditional actors and the incorporation of new agents with hegemonic tendencyon the previous ones. This phenomenon is accompanied of unusual increases in the production andimportant social inequalities and territorial disarticulations.