Cultivo de trigo y cambio técnico en España, 1900-1936

James Simpson

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 1996, issue 11, 39-56

Abstract: This article starts by considering briefly why resources continued to be allocated to wheat farming, even though Spain enjoyed no comparative advantage in its production. It then considers the relatively slow diffusion of new techniques to enhance soil fertility (chemical fertilizers) and improve labour productivity (reaping and threshing machines). It concludes that even though farmers appear to have been “rational” in their slow response to new technologies, the impact for the economy as a whole was negative.

Keywords: wheat; productivity; technical change; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10 ... 39-36.pdf?sequence=1 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:seh:journl:y:1996:i:11:p:39-56

Access Statistics for this article

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural is currently edited by Vicente Pinilla

More articles in Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural from Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Vicente Pinilla ().