ANRA:Lecture:Farming techniques - an overview

Farming techniques - an overview

I'd like to welcome you all to this lecture about farming techniques. This lecture gives an overview of the farming techniques and other lectures will give a more in depth information about the various farming techniques. I would like to talk about the following farming techiques: crop rotation, fertalizing and acidic soil. But first of all let me tell you a bit about why all these techniques are needed.
If you look around Blandenburg and M'Chek you can see that the soil is very dry and looks more like a desert then farmland. In the years past these lands have been used to feed a lot a people with wheat, corn, milk and meat. And when the land could not support the intense farming anymore, people moved on to new places to farm the same way again. As you may well know the soil has no more nutrition left for the plant to grow. We looked at this and came up with two ways to help the soil: fertalizing and crop rotation.
With fertalizing you add nutrition to the soil again and you can do this in various ways. One way is to use dung of the animals and another way is to use leftovers of plants. Collect the dung and plants in separate heaps during the year. It might be best to make the dung heap at the edges of town or even out of town to minimize the annoyance for the citizens of the town. The dried dung and decayed plants have to be spread on the land before planting a new crop and plowed under.

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