What agricultural uses are Pampas put to?

Currently, agriculture remains the main economic use of the pampas. Herding, cultivation of wheat and corn, and other grains along with dairies is very popular here. In the pampas cattle was introduced for the first time by the Portuguese in 1550's. During the colonial period, only a small portion of the pampas was used by Europeans. Economic activity has been virtually limited to some primitive animal, used for skins, bacon and cured meats. Here free roaming herds and shepherds 'gaucho' where the dominant figures in the region for the entire eighteenth century. The new economic era has begun in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the growing European markets of agricultural products (along with new technologies for the transport of foodstuffs) brought here immigrant farmers. These were mainly descendants of Italian, Spanish, French and German origin. They spread throughout the western regions after the railway was built to connect the pastures of the coast. It began full-scale cultivation of land, "unfriendly" natives were driven from the region, and the gauchos became farmers. Now the region has a dense transport network centered to Buenos Aires. And the Pampas is home for most of the population of the Argentina.