The Promises of Genetics to pampean agrarian capitalism, 1912-1943
This article reconstructs the bureaucratic, parliamentary and university initiatives that postulated research in plant genetics as the instrument to provide a scientific response to the sanitary and grain quality difficulties of crops in Argentina, which led to the design of a renewed state policy o...
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Escuela de Historia. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistapaginas.unr.edu.ar/index.php/RevPaginas/article/view/718 |
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| Sumario: | This article reconstructs the bureaucratic, parliamentary and university initiatives that postulated research in plant genetics as the instrument to provide a scientific response to the sanitary and grain quality difficulties of crops in Argentina, which led to the design of a renewed state policy on sciences applied to production since the early 1900s. At the turn of the century, politicians, officials and academics publicized the new knowledge coming from biology as an important instrument to support the technical management of rural production. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Nation, as well as legislators and scientists promoted projects for the organization of agricultural research and experimentation institutes in the country, based on the new biological methods and knowledge, which would make it possible to achieve the conditions of crop health and quality demanded by the international market. Genetics applied to agriculture was valued in the parliamentary, bureaucratic and academic agenda as decisive to achieve these objectives.
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