Excerpt from The Basic Elements of Agricultural Competitiveness: In Three Parts: Economics and Policy, Geography, History Despite continued increases in us. Farm productivity, overall export share has'been lost in recent years, due in part to larger foreign investments in research, to technology transfer and to changes in agricultural policies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.