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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SASKATCHEWAN WHEAT ECONOMY
Author(s) -
Furtan W. Hartley,
Lee George E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1977.tb02882.x
Subject(s) - political science , agriculture , forestry , humanities , economy , geography , welfare economics , economics , archaeology , art
The agricultural system in Saskatchewan has undergone an adaptive change in the past fifty years. This change is in large part due to the technology adopted by the farmers in Saskatchewan. This paper examines some of the changes that have occurred in Saskatchewan agriculture and employs the indirect innovation model of technical change to explain these changes. The relative price change in fuel, machinery, labour and land explained most of the change in the land/labour ratio in Saskatchewan. Implications were then drawn from the analysis regarding farm size in agricultural research. Le systéme agricole en Saskatchewan a subi un changement approprié au cours des cinquante derniéres années. Ce changement est dû, en grande partie, à la technologie adoptée par les fermiers de la Saskatchewan. Cette étude examine certaines des modifications apparues dans l'agriculture de la Saskatchewan et, afin de les expliquer, elle utilise comme modéle les innovations indirectes intervenues dans le changement technologique. La relative fluctuation des prix de l'essence, des machines, de la main‐d'oeuvre et des terres a entrainé en grande partie le changement du rapport terre/main‐d'oeuvre en Saskatchewan. Des implications ont ensuite été tirées de l'analyse se rapportant à la grandeur des fermes dans la recherche agricole.

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