Sumario: | Throughout history, we have witnessed that the degree of the State intervention in economic affairs depends on the State’s structure, the current economic model and even on the interest in being an active or passive agent in economic activities. In the particular case of the agricultural and industrial sectors, the State went from a high level of intervention to a minimum one in order to define the agro-industrial system, in which the protectionist model stood out through import-substitution industrialization until the late eighties. However, from the nineties, a process of economic liberalization was adopted, this generated changes in the agricultural sector due to tariffs and trade policies imposed throughout the periods of liberal governments
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