THE TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE

Abstract

The productivity growth due to technological adoption within the social relations of classes in capitalist systems is discussed. The relations between capital (private and social) and labor (working and non-working time) in agriculture and industry are analysed. Afterwards, attention is given to the especificities of the technical advancement in the primary sector, in which the biological processes, the natural conditions and the land as a production factor have their own particularities, turning the agricultural production processes into continuous, linked, interactive and restricted to specific conditions. At last, the role of technological innovations in agriculture is considered as to four innovations fields: mechanical, physical-chemical, biological and agronomic.