New Technologies and Techniques in Agriculture
New Technologies and Techniques in Agriculture

Author(s): Miroslav Válka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Agriculture, Rural and urban sociology, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: New technologies and techniques in agriculture; 18th-19th century;
Summary/Abstract: New and more rational farming methods were first initiated under instructions from the lords of manors and then, fromthe 18th century, by societies disseminating the ideas of the Enlightenment, and bythe Austrian state that was interested in its serfs, i.e. tax payers. The procedures recommended for arable and livestock farming based on the practices of manorial estates are explained in the educational literature of the time, which was another source of agricultural instructions and novelties and a platform for their dissemination.

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