The process of modernization in Latin American agriculture

Incontestably, the picture presented by Latin American agriculture is an ambivalent one. Although in recent decades it has shown that it is not a traditional backward sector, and has been sufficiently transformed and invigorated to meet effective demand successfully, it has not been able to achieve the levels of output required to help to solve the food, employment, income and other problems which persist both in the countryside and in the cities.