Conditions to the development of the familiar agriculture in the current capitalism

Abstract

First analyses of the development of agriculture capitalism have indicated that modernization presided by the logic of urban industry would make this activity in small production units impossible. Contemporary analyses have confirmed this thesis. These small units of production that have invested strongly in modernizing their technical basis, and targeted their production exclusively to the market, have not had any satisfactory economic returns to reduce their debts, being constantly in crisis and dependent on state politics. On the other hand, those familiar units , where farmers have learned how to balance traditional with modern knowledge and to connect production for self-consumption to market production, have developed greater capacity for surviving the crisis that usually hit the market.