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democracy give an incentive to political deliberation in newspapers, a
small but important part of the public sphere.
2. Some Agricultural and Industrial of Features Murcia:
Absence of GMO Cultivations not Politically Motivated
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Murcia is a region of the southeast
of Spain that had experienced
in the last decades an
important growing and modernisation
of the agriculture,
which is an important economy
sector in the whole south of the
Iberian Peninsula.
An intensive farming of
citrus, fruits and vegetables
(lettuce, tomato, cucumber
and so on) is characteristic in
this region, where the cultivated area are 600.000 ha. (53’5% of the
regions area).
MURCIA
SPAIN
2001 2002 2003 2004 2004
CULTIVATION AREA 606.000 606.000 606.000 605.839 25.175.260
AVERAGE 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 2.9
Table 1: Evolution of greenhouses cultures (1978-2004). Modified from “Atlas de Murcia”,
Diario La Verdad, http://www.atlasdemurcia.com/index.php/secciones/2/la-agricultura/
Agriculture in Murcia is directed to exportation. That implies the
parallel development of a transport network able to take out products
to the principal markets in Europe. An industry which works in the