El espacio agrícola

Agricultural space is defined and determined in regard of natural, technical, economic and social deeds. The geographical aspect comprises soil types, topography, water distribution, eliminate flora and fauna; it determines "natural regions". The technical aspect comprises physical, chemical and biological qualities of soil, edaphological features, exploitation branches, tillage labour, soil management, agricultural phenology, rains rules, frost defence, cultivated elements and domestic species, vegetal and animal ecology. It determinates "agricultural zones". The economic aspect includes land possession, its placing, valuation, production cost, efficiency, agricultural enterprise organization; it forms the "agricultural economic units". The social aspect concerns to land usage study, influence of ambient on man, human integration and distribution, social elements, social ecology; it qualifies the type, class or form of an existing community. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas