"Extensive study of agrarian industry in Venezuela focuses especially on issues to be addressed in the decade following the 1983 'collapse of the previous development model.' Sponsored by Centro de Investigaciones del Estado para la Producción Experimental Agroindustrial (CIEPE), includes six essays by experts on Venezuelan agriculture on topics such as food production for domestic consumption; food dependency; nutrition; industrial processing; agrarian export production; transport, storage and distribution; regional agrarian industry organization; technical and technological development; etc."--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 51.