Zur Geschichte und Theorie des Bergregals und der Bergbaufreiheit

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Identifikator:: 173528923X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-111142

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kalckreuth, Eberhard von http://d-nb.info/gnd/133513874

Title:: Ernährung und Schutzzoll

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Deutscher Volksblatt-Verlag

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 16 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Cereal Farming 31 F1G. 36. Harrowing a rice field in the Philippines. The land is flooded to prepare it for plant- ing; and the plow and the harrow are drawn bv the carabao, or water buffalo. How rice is raised in the Orient. The farmers of India and the Far East probably raise three or four billion bushels of rice each year. Some of this is exported, but most of it is eaten by the people. The most surprising thing about this huge crop is that it is grown with little or no help from farming machinery. Nearly all the work is done by hand. A rice field is always nearly level. It is inclosed within low ridges of earth so that it can be flooded as the crop grows. If the rice is raised on terraces that are built on a steep slope, as it often is in these over-populated regions, the fields are small. The flat land of broad plains, valley floors, deltas, and swamps is ideal for rice farming, since there the level surfaces and the abundant supply of water make it easy to flood the crop. It is interesting to watch the rice farmer of the tropics from the beginning of his labors, when the rains come, till the crop is stored away. In India, for example, after the fields have been soaked at the beginning of the rainy season, the earth is lightly plowed, or turned over by a large hoe. The plow is merely two pieces of wood fastened together, with a metal tip that goes through the earth. It is drawn by a pair of bullocks in dry land and by buffaloes

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