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Le problème de la viande
Get PDFAt a time when, on account of a relative shortage of meat, our attention is drawn to the meat problems, the author has considered it useful to search objectively for efforts and concessions that might bring a solution. The meat producer wishes to enhance the prices, but that may discourage the consumer. The expenses that encumber the meat processing and distribution seem exhorbitant. The failure of the experiment with short marketing channels should be explained and the economic « recovery » which would be the result of the reform of the marketing channels should be put into figures. In the present production hypothesis, the breeder remain exposed to technical, economic and social constraints more important ' than those of corn producers, although their income is lower. Does this mean that the breeding activity will progressively disappear ? The fact that certain areas remain unsuitable for cultivation, together with the power of a certain tradition, will delay this disappearing. But it is no doubt inevitable, unless an evolution — or even a revolution — of the regular techniques and changes of the marketing conditions brings a higher productivity and a better security that can be compared with those of the corn sector
Les contraintes à l'augmentation de la production céréalière en secteur privé en Algérie
Get PDFIn the private sector in Algeria, cereals are grown on small farms with traditionnal methods giving low yield. Agronomic trials made on the farms, show that it is easy to double the yield. Constraints come from the lack of equipment, the lack of extension and the economic environment
Des typologies d'exploitations aux couches sociales agricoles : l'exemple de la viticulture languedocienne
Get PDFOn the basis of an existing typology of vineyards and data on non agricultural activities and family incomes, a pattern of characteristics and behaviour of the different social classes of wine-growers in the Languedoc area is established and their relative importance examined. The results have led to a reflexion on the relationship between capital accumulation and social reproduction
Les inégalités interrégionales : évolution au 19e siècle
Get PDFThe study presents new series of production and income per head, at a regional and national levels, for French agriculture in the 19th and the 20th centuries as well as a calculation of growth rates of total factor productivity for a sample of eleven agricultural regions over the 1851-1970 period. They give a more precise view of the stability of income inequalities between regions before and during the period of industrialization. They highlight three main trends : the improvemnent that accrued to regions at the periphery, when they were linked by rail ; the sharp deterioration of workers tied up to the land during the period of rural desindustrialization ; and the absence of cumulative advantages in favour of the central regions, near Paris, in contrast with what is known of leading and lagging regions in industry