Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/79/en

At the starting point of industrial value creation stands the inventive spirit of the human being. It is ideas sprung from thinking that bring the laws of nature, substances, and forces of inorganic nature — isolated from their natural context — into interaction through human labour in such a way that products arise outside of created nature (machines, fertilizers, biocides), which then flow as commodities into the economic cycle.

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