AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE
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Technological improvements are generally conceived in economics as identical
increases in productivity for all producers. Reality is more complicated-the
diffusion of new technologies is generally associated with differential changes in
the scale of production, with entry into promising new lines of activity, and in
the exit of producers who cannot keep up with the technological pace and are
forced out by deteriorating terms of trade. These are the economic processes
that revolutionize the technological and social structure of the rural communities
in the process of development. This paper outlines a few assumptions
and findings of a theory of structural change associated with technological
improvement and illustrates it with developments in the dairy and the poultry
industries in Israel.