This work focuses on the recent inclusion of Bolivian horticulturalist migrants in public sector technical assistance programmes, a proof of the increasing visibility of these actors in the local productive space. The intention of this article is to analize the interplay between entitled knowledge by State agencies and migrants' knowledge in horticultural practices, as well as the role of this involvement in the construction of social reproduction strategies. The Upper Rio Negro Valley is a region in Northern Patagonia specialized in fruit growing for external markets. Recurrent crises in the productive model have weakened the centrality of small exploitations, entailing the loss of capital and the extinction of family producers. Since the early 1990s, horticulture production is being taken over by a new transnational migration movement of Bolivian families, who mostly raise their crops on land leased from traditional chacareros.

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international migration Rio Negro [Argentina] Argentina public sector knowledge social construction development discourse immigrant population