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Agriculture in Venezuela
Agriculture in Venezuela has a much smaller share of the economy than in any other Latin American country. From the discovery of oil in Venezuela in the early twentieth century to the 1940s, the importance of agriculture declined rapidly, and with the beginning of large-scale industrial development in the 1940s, agriculture and land reform was largely neglected by successive governments (although a 1960 land reform law did see 200,000 families receive land, largely in the early 1960s). The country imports most of its food, mainly from Colombia and the United States.〔 Since 1999, under the Bolivarian Revolution of President Hugo Chávez, agriculture has had a somewhat higher priority.
==History==
Prior to the 1950s and the initiation of large-scale oil exports, agriculture, fishing, and forestry were central to the Venezuelan economy, producing more than half the gross domestic product (GDP). As late as the 1930s, agriculture still provided 22 percent of GDP and occupied 60 percent of the labor force. As the petrochemical industry expanded rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, however, the proportion of the labor force in agriculture dropped from one-fifth to about one-tenth. By 1988 agriculture contributed only 5.9 percent of GDP, employed 13 percent of the labor force, and furnished barely 1 percent of total exports. Agriculture has continued to decline, accounting for about 5 percent of GDP and 10 percent of employment in 2004.〔(Venezuela country profile ). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (March 2005). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.''〕 According to a 1997 government survey, 3.4m hectares of land are suitable for farming (and a further 17.1m hectares suitable for pasture) - but only 0.7m hectares were employed in grain production.〔USDA, (Venezuela: Agricultural Overview ), accessed 21 May 2009〕
Venezuela saw several attempts at land reform before 1998. During the brief first period of democracy (''El Trienio Adeco'', 1945–48), the Democratic Action government redistributed land which it said had been gained illicitly by members of previous governments,〔Alexander, Robert. ("Nature and Progress of Agrarian Reform in Latin America." ) ''The Journal of Economic History''. Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1963), pp 559-573.〕 and in mid-1948 it enacted an agrarian reform law.〔 Most of the land redistributed in this way was returned to its previous owners during the 1948-58 dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.〔 After the 1958 restoration of democracy, a new land reform law was enacted in March 1960,〔 with reform in the early 1960s concentrated in the northeastern states of Miranda, Aragua and Carabobo, and coming largely from expropriated private landholdings.〔 The reform was accompanied by a considerable increase in agricultural production.〔 Ultimately the reform saw about 200,000 families receive transfers of land, largely in the early 1960s.〔Gregory Wilpert, "(Land for people not profit in Venezuela )", in Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, Michael Courville, Land Research Action Network (2006), ''Promised land: competing visions of agrarian reform''. Food First Books. p251〕
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