Agricultural machinery

green revolution occurred between the 1930’s and the late 1960’s. Monsanto was at the top of the list of “corporate totalitarians” that benefited from the depletion and deterioration of our natural resources. The term refers to the increase of agricultural production worldwide, particularly in developing countries. To guarantee this increase in production, concerned parties relied on modern irrigation projects, dangerous chemical herbicides and pesticides, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and…

economic slowdown had plunged America into the midst of a Great Depression. While Hoover wrote to Emmerson that "the considerable continuation of destitution during the winter" and perhaps more was inevitable, he was trying to "get the country's machinery in ... action." Since the accident, Hoover had worked steadily trying to fix the economy. He founded government agencies, encouraged…

In what once known as one of the most fertile areas of the United States, one of the Country’s most destructive agricultural disasters took place. Due to droughts and no rain, crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Extending over a 150,000 square mile land and including parts of five states, Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, the eastern Colorado and New Mexico, the Dust Bowl was a period where more than 100 million acres of land of terrains…

Heavy goods have been aptly described as “machine-building complexes with a large capacity for the manufacture of machinery to produce steel, chemicals, fertiliser, electricity, transport equipment, etc” [Joshi 1979]. The means of bringing about a fast-growing heavy-goods sector was to invest disproportionately in these machine-building complexes. It was implicitly recognised…

system of patronage in the sharecropper system often prevented this. Planters who received the checks often kept the money spending it instead to settle the debts that bound African-American sharecroppers to the land or used it to invest in new machinery that further reduced the need for black labor. While the immediate impact of the AAA increased the hardships of many African Americans it had a long term liberating effect as well. Between 1933 and 1940 the number of sharecroppers in the South…

Undoubtedly, Mao Zedong’s policies caused great famine and threw the middle and lower class into civil strife. The agricultural and industrial failures of the Great Leap Forward killed millions, while the Cultural Revolution pitted the people against themselves. Mao grew confidence through the Korean War and foreign negotions, but utterly failed in implementing policy that…

This led to a rapid increase in machinery imports in Russia, causing the originally agricultural country to surge towards a cotton industry and an increase in the use of wage labor. Although Russia seemed to be on its way to becoming industrialized, the country was still predominately agricultural with a serf labor system. It was not until the Russians lost the Crimean War that they decided to reform in order to…

foreign loans, rapid modernisation also meant an increase in taxes and interest rates to subsidise these costs. Furthermore, the emphasis on the modernisation of 'heavy ' industry did not help the agricultural demands of the working class, as they were still forced to employ the use of outdated machinery, meaning Russia capitalised on the use of a cheap labour force and outdated…

through the agricultural revolution. Ironically, these fundamental changes (in how people met their survival needs) most benefitted the already secure middle class and nobility. In reaction to continued oppression and poverty, and heavily influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment, the peasants of Europe- in particular France-banded together to demand radical changes in the way society was structured, ultimately leading to the French Revolution. These two occurrences- the agricultural…

occurred during the Industrial Age, it is fair to state that the Industrial Age was harsh, but necessary. It started in England due to its ability to produce vasts amounts of products and goods. Initially, it was all caused by an agricultural revolution. The Agricultural Revolution that incited the Industrial Age produced vasts amount of food. This caused a rise in population due to the high abundance of resources. This gave people the ability to afford more products which led to more children…