This diversification is the result of a recognition of the need for greater food
sufficiency and the existence of potential and competitive conditions to develop
alternative production options to cattle raising.
However, these positive signs do not attenuate the continued existence of
important weaknesses in the productive structure (with numerous farms
operating in conditions which are not particularly dynamic in technical and
economic terms) as well as in areas of productive, technological and market
innovation for agricultural and cattle raising farms and processing units.
It is therefore necessary to continue to reinforce the emphasis on diversification,
so as to inhibit imports, by revitalising not just traditional production but also by
developing sectors in which the Region is lagging.