Domesticated plant species first spread to neighboring regions via nomadic pastoralists, who traded with various farming communities.

31 авг. 2021 г. · Colonial agricultural development schemes were sites of economic extraction, scientific hubris, agricultural experimentation, ...

Some of the most popular foods harvested in the early American colonies included corn, tobacco, wheat, and cotton. Methods of production were often adopted ...

16 окт. 2014 г. · The harvests gathered by colonial farmers included an expansive number of crops: beans, squash, peas, okra, pumpkins, peppers, tomatoes, and ...

26 нояб. 2016 г. · Colonial agriculture introduced cash crops for export to Europe to feed industries, and included plantation agriculture using unskilled labor ...

For long years the natives were at best sources of cheap labour for the enterprises initiated by the colonists, and it would be no exaggeration to say that any ...

Throughout the colonial period, the central aim of agricultural development was to coax more wealth from tropical soils through more effective and sustainable ...

28 авг. 2004 г. · A diverse agriculture was replaced by a system of large plantations to grow sugar, cotton and tobacco for the European market, under a ...

Colonial Agriculture. European settlers began as peasant farmers cultivating the staple crop--tobacco for sale to Europe. Agriculture of this major crop was ...