Agricultural occupations - farming tools

Agricultural occupations - farming tools
 

From the very old, the basic nutritional requirements of man, covered only by agricultural and livestock products, so the agriculture and livestock was the main occupation of almost all people. From the earliest years as well as agriculture and livestock, were the factors supporting house initially but then the state economy. In Greek mythology and the mythologies of other countries in the history of ancient and more recent times, there are reports and actions, in showing the importance of both agriculture and animal husbandry.

The Homeric references to goats of Odysseus, the mythological references to oxen Gyrioni in Hercules wrestling with Achelous, the apples of the Hesperides, and the gardens of Babylon, the granaries of the Pharaohs, the biblical references to Abraham, Job, Jacob etc. show that the wealth of the time, counted by the agricultural and livestock achievements. Because of this importance of these two activities were and still today constitute the main pillars supporting the chosen primary production sector, according to modern views of economics.
 
The term agriculture, we mean all the activities of man to subdue the earth, under a mutual reciprocation. The more elaborate the earth, the more you pay.

The cultivation of the earth, however, is not the sole determinant of success of crops. A bunch of other unknown factors, such as weather and disease, to a very large extent affect agricultural production. For this reason, invented the science of Agronomy, who has contributed so greatly to the improvement of farming methods, and improving farming tools, and effective treatment of various diseases.

In this website, we will refer to all agricultural work, plowing, reaping, threshing, hoeing, watering, etc. to collecting fruit, vine harvest, corn harvest, picking Elia, etc. We also refer to agricultural tools, plow, yoke, hoes, dikeli, hoe, etc. in an effort reminder of agricultural work, presentation of how to use the crop tool, as the work and the tools were used, before the mechanized cultivation.