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A Strategic Line for Agricultural Development

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the strategic importance of cheap food policies and imputes to that sort of state intervention the low level of current benefits in capitalist developed agricultures. As a consequence, corporate farming has been inhibited and family fanning has found favourable conditions to develop.

KEYWORDS:
Agricultural prices; inequality; family agriculture

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