| Sumario: | The following article aims to characterize the trajectory of agribusiness in the O'Higgins region, mainly fruticulture, over the last three decades. Through the analysis of four dimensions: production, employment, income and use of land and water, attempt is made to establish an internal differentiation, which allows us to recognize a second stage in productive modernization after the Agrarian Reform. In general terms scholars has been proposed the existence of a process of crop intensification, based on the installation of new species and the use of more and better technologies. This analysis is carried out through the quantitative work of social and productive databases, as well as the elaboration of cartographies that allow us to observe this process. At the same time, we reflect on the configuration of the rural space in the region, highlighting the tension between the elements that are maintained in relation to those that are being transformed. In this way, a second stage is identified, whose main characteristics lie in its spatial heterogeneity, that is, that it does not affect the whole territory in the same way, as well as the deployment of new crops and technical improvements are accompanied by the maintenance of old structures in agroindustrial production the region.
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