PL
Rola techniki rolniczej systematycznie rośnie. Wzrostowi temu towarzyszyła i towarzyszy ewolucja podejścia do rozwiązywania problemów związanych z rozwojem rolnictwa. Do końca II Wojny Światowej było to podejście redukcjonistyczne. Od początku lat pięćdziesiątych XX wieku w krajach rozwiniętych pojawiła się i stopniowo nabiera coraz większego znaczenia opcja holistyczna. W przyszłości będzie ona dominować.
EN
Economic boom after the World War II caused the manpower egress from agriculture and the rise in price of the labor. The refore in 1950-1985, the motorization and mechanization level rised in agriculture of industrialized countries bringing about the increase of labor productivity with growing material and energy inputs. Together with the technological progress the more and more attention has been paid to the work conditions and to the environment protection. Present world economic recession constrains the augmentation of the efficiency of inputs. The dramatic diminution of investments related to the agricultural engineering has been observed. Role of material and energy inputs decreases in favour of non-material factors. Evolution from the reductionist to the holistic approach in understanding of the technological progress will cause the growing impact of the sientific and economic information. Investigations carried out by interdisciplinary research teams should give such an information, concerning significant factors effecting processes taken into consideration, as well as the correlations between them.