Why the Best Farmland on Earth Made Argentina Poor

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  @GeographyEffect · 1 month ago · pinned

  The Pampas didn't fail Argentina. They made failure unnecessary to fix. Drop your questions below.

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  @TheMrfoufoutos · 1 month ago

  The Greek tycoon Aristotele Onassis emigrated from Smyrna (Izmir today), Asia Minor , after Turkish capture and burning of the city, to Buenos Ayres. He started from there building his enormous wealth.

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  @moonisvlogs1984 · 1 month ago

  Good insight.

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  @Argentvs · 1 month ago

  Some mistakes you did: <br>Land concentration, partially &nbsp;incorrect. Most of the pampean plain is owned by small farmers between 15 and 300 hectares. By the late 19th century land was sold to immigrants and immigration companies that could build towns. In my province every single town and city outside the capital and Rosario was built like this. Immigrants came, bought land with family savings or rich foreigners bought colonization lands and founded towns. <br>Most of our towns here are called like an immigrant who did that. My town was bought by an Italian who sold off everything, bought wild prairie land and then donated part of it to the railroad and brought 150 families from Italy to colonize it. As such his last name is my town name. And such is like 5 towns around us. Even one of them, Aldao has a twin town in Cordoba province because they were two brothers that split their efforts. <br><br>Land concentration was mainly in southern Buenos Aires and Patagonia. Improductive lands back then that worked only as cattle ranching for cows and sheep. <br>The agriculture production was exclusive done in the central pampean plain and only came to be with the mass immigration of European farmers. In my province Santa Fe the 2 first agro colonies in the country, Colonia Esperanza and Moises were founded in the 1860s by Swiss and Jewish immigrants respectively.<br>The rural society was almost exclusively cattle ranching families. Not farmers. <br><br>2: there is 2 railroads connecting Argentina westward to the Pacific. <br><br>And 3rd:. You are completely wrong about the Buenos Aires port. That ceased to exist in 1890. <br>The agro production does not departs from Buenos Aires. It&apos;s been a century since Buenos Aires is a general cargo container port. <br>70% of the agro exports come out of my region, the great Rosario agroindustrial belt. Other part departs from Bahia Blanca port and La Plata.

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  @michaelschnirch204 · 1 month ago

  Interesting contribution. Thank you.

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  @hikmahuddinhasbullah3928 · 1 month ago

  if my country has the same soil as argentina but at least we have the geographical advantage for having one of the best trade routes in the world…Malacca Straits😢😢😢

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  @tomhudson1757 · 1 month ago

  great video! really comprehensive and well put together

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  @SamOnjogoh · 1 month ago

  Thank you for Asking and Answering about Argentina.

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• GU

  @guidorienzo1527 · 1 month ago

  buen video, saludos desde argentina

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• MK

  @mkvl · 1 month ago

  This is good, very good analysis. Subscription earned.

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  @DarshakaIII · 1 month ago

  Excellent analysis!

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  @dalsoore · 1 month ago (edited)

  The Resource Curse: Regions heavily endowed with valuable raw materials often rely entirely on extracting and exporting those resources. <br>This dependency can cause the local currency to strengthen, making other domestic industries (like manufacturing or agriculture) uncompetitive—a phenomenon known as Dutch Disease.<br><br>Extractive Institutions: When wealth is concentrated in the soil or underground (e.g., oil, minerals), power and capital often centralize in the hands of a few elites. This leads to extractive political and economic institutions that exploit the environment and local labor rather than investing in broad-based human capital, education, or infrastructure.<br><br>Lack of Technological Pressure: In environments where survival is easy or resources are naturally abundant, there is historically less pressure for societies to innovate, build complex infrastructure, or develop specialized labor divisions.

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