La liquidación de la reforma técnica de la agriculturaAlgunos estudios de caso en los poblados de colonización de la provincia de Jaén

Abstract

This work emphasizes the failure of the technical reform of agriculture undertaken in Spain since 1939. To check it the province of Jaén has been elected, where the two principles that support that reform (irrigation and distribution of small lots of rural land) achieved the largest dimensions. We have chosen to select five case studies, corresponding to several colonization villages, to analyze the evolution of the agricultural surface since the middle of xxth Century until nowadays. With the combined use of aerial photography and field work, it has been able to check that an agricultural intensification and diversification have not been realized, like the technical reform proposed, the other way round, the monoculture of olive grove has grown, which it is not different to the evolution in the rest of the province of Jaén. The influence of Common Agricultural Policy, that has established a generous system of grants for the olive oil, has turned on decisive to dedicate the land only to the olive grove.