The huge losses mentioned by the Chamber of Commerce (CAFI) represent the exports of a full season. Everything indicates that the system is shrinking compulsively with national government's and the provincial's complicity.
In silence, the political sector supports the slow but progressive decline of the system's producers and small and medium enterprises. They are waiting for an economic balance that, appears to consist of a more concentrated commercial Valley, with only 50% of the acres that today exist but with highly productive farms and smaller ones that are currently registered. Similar policy to the one of the 90's, let the market "rearrange" naturally the system's variables. One of the many contradictions that presents the story of the national and popular model.
But in the midst of this reality there are the more than 3,000 rural workers that already were expelled from the system in the last three seasons and thousands are marginalized by various satellite industries that work for the fruit sector.
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