Scientific and Technical Collaboration between the CMEA Member Countries in the Sphere of Agriculture

The contemporary scientific technical revolution is considerably changing the productive forces of society; it reorganizes the material and technical basis of production, turns ·science into an immediate productive force, raises to a new level the nature of labour, accelerates the social division of labour both nationally and internationally, and enriches its forms. In the conditions of this modern genera! scientific and technical revolution, international trade in agricultural products relying on geographic, soil, climatic and other differences, ceases to be the only form of international relations and connections between the different countries and regions of the world in the sphere of food and agriculture. The dimensions of scientific and technical connections and relations, industrial cooperation etc. are considerable. The processes of international economic, scientific and technical integration are intensifying. The role of international scientific and technical co-operation widens and rises. This cooperation turns into an integral and irrevocable part of international economic and political relations between the different countries, and is a primary prerequisite for their further development. This is particularly true for the economic, scientific and technical relations of the country members of interstate organizations and unions, where the development of the international scientific and technical connections is based on the functioning of a system of economic laws unified in goals and character. The CMEA is an example of that. 1 In its thirty years of existence the CMEA carries out a wide range of activities for co-ordinating the efforts of the member countries for the