Publication: Tierras inundadas: El cultivo del arroz en la España contemporánea (1800-1936)
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2002
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Marcial Pons : Centro de Estudios Constitucionales : Fundación Fomento de la Historia Económica
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El arroz fue una de las diversas dedicaciones agrícolas que permitieron mejorar los rendimientos en las condiciones particulares del mundo mediterráneo. Su implantación, sin embargo, exigió profundas transformaciones en el aprovechamiento del agua y comportó, a causa de las implicaciones sanitarias del cultivo, la intervención estatal. Su inserción en las estructuras agrarias existentes no fue, por tanto, fácil pero posibilitó el uso agrario de áreas de difícil aprovechamiento como la Albufera valenciana, el delta del Ebro y las Marismas del Guadalquivir. Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, además, esta producción tuvo que adaptarse a la competencia de los países asiáticos. Lo hizo, bajo la protección de las medidas arancelarias, intensificando la producción hasta el punto de situar los rendimientos españoles entre los más altos del mundo ya en el siglo XX.
Rice was one of the crops that improved agricultural yields under the restrictive conditions of the mediterranean world. However the expansion of its cultivation demanded deep changes in the use of water and new forms of government intervention because of the sanitary effects of the crop. The introduction of rice in the existent agrarian structures was not easy. However it facilitated the use of difficult agrarian areas such as the Valencian Albufera, the delta of the Ebro and the Marismas of the Guadalquivir. From the second half of the XIX century rice production had to adapt to the competition of the Asian countries. This was done through the intensification of the production under high and protective tariffs. The paper shows that the Spanish yields were among the highest in the world in the XX century.
Rice was one of the crops that improved agricultural yields under the restrictive conditions of the mediterranean world. However the expansion of its cultivation demanded deep changes in the use of water and new forms of government intervention because of the sanitary effects of the crop. The introduction of rice in the existent agrarian structures was not easy. However it facilitated the use of difficult agrarian areas such as the Valencian Albufera, the delta of the Ebro and the Marismas of the Guadalquivir. From the second half of the XIX century rice production had to adapt to the competition of the Asian countries. This was done through the intensification of the production under high and protective tariffs. The paper shows that the Spanish yields were among the highest in the world in the XX century.
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Revista de Historia Económica Año XX Invierno 2002 n. 1 pp. 39--80