Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/185/en

The introduction of technology into agriculture since the nineteenth century has brought with it social upheavals of the greatest magnitude. It has relieved human beings of heavy labor — but through this has also rationalized a large portion of the rural population out of the work process. It has increased productivity through the one-sided narrowing of cropping and animal husbandry systems and, as a lasting side-effect, called the global environmental problematic onto the scene; in short, technology, following its own momentum, has lent impetus to the global industrialization of agriculture and to international competition and with that to the decline of agricultural prices. The costs of the immense worldwide environmental damage,