THE PENETRATION OF CAPITAL INTO TURKEY’S AGRICULTURE AND ITS AMBIVALENCES

Authors : Cihan Cinemre

Pages : 101-116

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Publication Date : 2025-01-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This work deals with the capital’s penetration into Turkey’s agriculture particularly in the era following the 2000s. The subject matter is examined in terms of the emergence of inequality in the ownership of the land, the commodification of seed, the consolidation of the rule of retail monopolies over the circulation of agricultural products, and the change in the pattern of cultivation reflecting the international division of labour in agriculture. It is asserted that the unity of the laws of motion of capital with the state coercion impelled these changes. It is emphasised in the study that a crucial moment of capital’s mode of engagement with agriculture is its shunning from investing in direct agricultural production, which in turn is postulated as one of the fundamental causes of ambivalence internal to their relationship.
Keywords : Tarım, Müphemlik, Metalaşma, Tarım endüstrisi, Üretim tarzı, Proleterleşme