Agricultural education, enologists and technology to ‘quality wine industry’, Mendoza, 1890-1930

Abstract

Based on the relationship between education and economy, the objective of this article is to analyze the impact of public policies on agricultural education in the regional wine economy. To do so, first, we focus on the major sectorial educational projects in Mendoza in the consolidation period of the productive model of capitalist basis, and in the contribution of technicians involved in these establishments. The reconstruction is based on data obtained from primary sources, edited and unpublished, official and unofficial. As a result, it is shown that the State, national and provincial, answered to the demands of human resource training, and the constitution of a subgroup that initiated technical discussions and made significant contributions on wine and winemaking.