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| 30 miles inland from Roquetas de Mar, the prosperous town of El Ejido awaits. Stretching roughly 12 km along the N 340 motorway, traversing what was formerly a wilderness of salt flats and sand dunes. It is now a sea of plastic; 64,000 acres of polythene, supported by eucalyptus posts, provide the environment for the year-round production of fruit and salad vegetables, exported to northern Europe. It is plastic greenhouse farming at its best, making El Ejido the most prosperous area in Andalucia. This expansion commenced in the 1970s. It has brought an influx of workers from all over Spain and beyond, who invested in plots of land. There were around 10,000 immigrants, mainly from Morocco, who provided a good bulk of the labor. The population was 2,000 in 1980, but it has now ballooned to 50,000.
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