Common rotation of crops
In communes with repartitional tenure, homesteads alone were assigned to households in hereditary
tenure, arable land being subject to periodical repartitions by a two- thirds' vote of the assembly of the householders. Under both systems arable land was usually divided into a number of intermingled strips
assigned to the households, an arrangement which necessitated a common rotation of crops.
Micheal Florinsky "Russia. History and interpretation"
Could you please explain the meaning of the bolded AND why this arrangement necessiared the commont rotation? Thanks a lot
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Vladv Could you please explain the meaning of the bolded AND why this arrangement necessiared the commont rotation? I am not an agriculturist, and I don't play one on TV, but I think he means that the farmers had to cooperate in crop rotation for it to have the right effect. One of the purposes of crop rotation is to deprive pests of their preferred food, and if everybody rotated on their own schedule, there would always be something for the same bugs to eat, year after year.
- Vladv Could you please explain the meaning of the bolded AND why this arrangement necessiared the commont rotation?
- I am not an agriculturist, and I don't play one on TV, but I think he means that the farmers had to cooperate in crop rotation for it to have the right effect.
- One of the purposes of crop rotation is to deprive pests of their preferred food, and if everybody rotated on their own schedule, there would always be something for the same bugs to eat, year after year.
- This "common" rotation was necessary because if only one farmer was farming the land, there would be no one for him to rotate in common with.
- That's just a guess, mind you.
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VladvCould you please explain the meaning of the bolded AND why this arrangement necessiared the commont rotation?
I am not an agriculturist, and I don't play one on TV, but I think he means that the farmers had to cooperate in crop rotation for it to have the right effect. One of the purposes of crop rotation is to deprive pests of their preferred food, an
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