La mecanización de la agricultura española: de la dependencia exterior a la producción nacional de maquinaria (1862-1932)

Abstract

This paper studies, from the supply side, the mechanisation process of Spanish agriculture, and more specifically the mechanisation of threshing, from 1862 to 1932. In the first part, we explain tvhen it began and how it developed and we offer the results uf the process ut the beginning of the 1890's. After that, we study the case uf Ajuria S.A., from Vitoria, a farnily business that controlled the thresher Spanish market since the end of 1920Js, throwing foreign competitors 08 and drived the mechanisation uf threshing over the whole country