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

Year 2025, Volume: 16 Issue: 1, 101 - 116, 31.01.2025

Cihan Cinemre

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

Agriculture, Ambivalence, Commodification, Agri-business, Mode of production, Proletarianization

SERMAYENİN TÜRKİYE TARIMINA NÜFUZU VE GETİRDİĞİ MÜPHEMLİKLER

Abstract

Bu çalışma sermayenin özellikle 2000’li yıllardan sonraki dönemde Türkiye tarımına nüfuz etmesiyle ilgilidir. Araştırma konusu, toprak mülkiyetinde ortaya çıkan eşitsizlik, tohumun metalaşması, tarımsal ürünün dolaşımı üzerinde perakende tekellerinin hâkimiyetinin pekişmesi ve tarımsal üretimdeki uluslararası işbölümü doğrultusunda yetiştiricilik örüntüsündeki değişim bakımından ele alınmıştır. Sermayenin hareket kanunlarıyla devlet zorunun birliğinin bu dönüşümü harekete geçirdiği ileri sürülmüştür. Çalışmada, sermayenin tarıma yönelik girişimlerindeki belirleyici bir uğrağın, onun doğrudan tarımsal üretime yatırılmasında yaşanan tereddüt olduğu vurgulanmıştır. Sermayenin bu tutumu onun tarımla ilişkisine içerilmiş müphemliğin temel nedenlerinden biri olarak koyutlanmıştır.

Keywords

Tarım, Müphemlik, Metalaşma, Tarım endüstrisi, Üretim tarzı, Proleterleşme

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