Les mutations provoquées par l'irrigation dans un municipe du centre du bassin de l'Ebre : Granen (Province de Huesca)
1977; Presses Universitaires de Rennes; Volume: 95; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/noroi.1977.3657
ISSN1760-8546
Autores ResumoSUMMARY The achievment of the High Aragon Scheme produced an extension of the irrigated area in the Graňen municipe, from 300 to 2 900 hectares, thus becoming the main part of the agricultural surface ; this explains the rise of such crops as rice, maize and lucerne. From a social point of view, although! the contrast still remains between the holdings of small farmers collected around the village center on the one hand, and the large estates in the remoter parts on the other hand, some large properties (2 300 hectares) were expropriated for the benefit of IRYDA, which therewith created two new rural settlements, Curbe and Montesusin, and gave rise to a new type of cultivators. The irrigation gave more interest to the holdings of the village center peasants, whose exodus was reduced, as well as it chiefly stimulated the large estates, in better position to take advantage of the new cropping policies and to employ the ihbour force coming from the latest settlements. The settlers, indeed, cultivalingabout ten hectares only, are obliged either to rear cattle, thus giving value to the fodder crops sold generally by the other farmers of Graňen, or to look for paid works outside their holdings.
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