Agricultural

In spite of the vast spaces with excellent natural resources for exploitation, the province of Buenos Aires only produces 36% of the Internal Gross Product for agricultural and livestock industry. This has not only caused the a relative withdrawal in the participation of red meats and cereals in the world market, but also a strangling of the external sector of the national economy, which depends in great part on the Pampean agricultural exportation. In 1930 the exportations from Argentina represented 25, 65 and 38% of the world commerce of wheat, corn and meats, respectively. In the 70s those values decreased to 4, 12 and 13%, respectively. This situation meant a decrease of the traditional wheat area and the stagnation of the oleaginous crops (sunflower and linseed), as opposed to the great increment in corn's yield and, as from 1974, the expansion of sorghum and the rise of soybean as a wheat substitute. In MABA, the expansion of the urban area has transformed its immediate borders. The drop of extensive agricultural uses gives rise to other activities (quarries, brick fabrication, lumbering). An opposite trend can also be identified: The proximity of a growing market that allows to simplify the commercialisation mechanisms enhances the development of agricultural activities in the peri-urban border, such as horticulture, floriculture, animal and poultry breeding, apiculture.
 
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