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The Modernization of Brazilian Agriculture Since 1950

In: Brazilian Crops in the Global Market

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  • Herbert S. Klein
  • Francisco Vidal Luna

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The basic change which explains the sudden growth of agricultural exports was the modernization of national agriculture and the expansion into frontier tropical zones which occurred after 1950. This involved massive government intervention in terms of subsidized credit, controlled prices and stocks, and support for the introduction of machinery, fertilizers, and insecticides. It also opened new frontier lands with paved roads and in all respects carried out a conservative type of agrarian reform, without changing land tenure. All this was done in combination with an import substitution industrial policy which required cheap food prices to keep wages low. The government also funded major agricultural research directed mainly to improve productivity and output and to integrate previously abandoned tropical land into production.

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  • Herbert S. Klein & Francisco Vidal Luna, 2023. "The Modernization of Brazilian Agriculture Since 1950," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Brazilian Crops in the Global Market, chapter 0, pages 5-38, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-38589-6_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38589-6_2
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