Reseña

In the nineteen sixties in Colombia many politicians still believed that increases in agricultural production required capital intensive large production units, and Berry showed that employment and production could increase if technology and other inputs were delivered to medium and small farms.
These ideas supported policies of land reform, as long as it generated productive units of sufficient size. Berry also discussed the inevitability of solving extreme poverty in the rural area through rural urban migration, since given the large number of farms with insufficient land to guarantee a decent income, migration was called for to increase rural wages.

Keywords: Agricultural development, 1960-1969, agricultural policy, agricultural industry, Colombia.