ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that accelerating technology transfer to a farming community is a viable option; this without the prior development of a complete infrastructure comprising all of the required ‘software’ and ‘hardware.’ The Advanced Technologies in Traditional Agriculture approach may offer an economically and socially acceptable way to overcome shortages of relatively high-value food crops in the growing metropolitan centers of developing countries. Development processes and ways to optimize them have been the focus of much research and pragmatic thinking. The chapter presents the approach that one of the aims of development is to increase agricultural production in order to supply these growing food requirements. The transformation of a traditional farm sector into a commercial one requires critical changes in a number of production factors, such as land distribution, social structure, technological level, as well as in various other structural components. The social structure was based on a semi-feudal system, with collabouration between landlords and farmers.
