Poultry territorial specialization in Monte, Province of Buenos Aires

Abstract

From global production integration and the development of conservation techniques increased food circulation and, with it, process of productive specialization. Conforming process of territorial technification, in the last decades a poultry territorial specialization was established in Monte, Province of Buenos Aires. The aim of this paper is to inquire the genesis and recent history of that territorial specialization attending the movements in the circuits of the urban economy. The interpretation is based on field work carried out in Monte in 2017, 2019 y 2022; interviews conducted in Escobar and Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires; and analysis of secondary sources, such as documentation produced by agencies of the National State, official information from companies and journalistic news. The text structure is founded in a spatiotemporal approach: we analyse the densification of the territorial specialization since the growth of Rasic Hermanos, then the company bankruptcy process that inaugurates the built environment devaluation and the participation of other actors; finally, the purchase of Granja Tres Arroyos that deepens the poultry production oligopolisation in the country.