The difficulties to maintain the periurban agriculture. The Horta of the city of Lleida as example

The Horta of the city of Lleida has been for many years the centre of intensive agriculture of inner Catalonia. It was the vegetable field where people obtained the best yield per hectare, a closely planted field of trees with farm and farm houses in between, with the greatest density of farmers and a thick weave of plots, all this thanks in good part to the demand and closes relations with the consumers and sales representative of the city. But, from the nineteen sixties, with the advent of greater industrialisation and mechanisation in farming and the markets opening to more agricultural products, this privilege situation began to change. Today everything witch was an advantage has changed to an inconvenience. How to change the traditional irrigation systems and the old buildings of the country to the requirements of world markets?. How to resist the pressure of urban growth and the building of new infrastructure?. This are the questions asked by the residents of the country who have began to organize themselves in a movement of resistance.