Despite persistent rural urban migration in Latin America, the agricultural sector has continued to be of vital importance during the last seventy years. Explain give examples.

Latin America has a large area of cultivable land, good climate and soil to suit every crop, surrounded with surplus water resources. The vast tract of fertile land gave birth to agriculture, cattle breeding, farming and growing variety of crops. Ever since the Incas civilisation, agriculture has been the main occupation for the people of Latin America. Both men and women work for hours under the hot sun to harvest the crops through out the …

…single product. However it did not solve the long-term problems of commodity trade. Thus agriculture is very vital to Latin America not out of choice but out of compulsion to boost the economy and this reliance on commodity trade has confined the country to the back of the world economy. . BIBLIOGRAPHY ·Green, Ducan, Faces of Latin America, Publisher: Latin America Bureau, London 1997. ·Galeano, Eduardo, Open veins of Latin America, Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York, 1997.