This book isn’t actually focused on agriculture… it’s about rural community development, but this page does pertain to subsistence agriculture.
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These so called experts are out of touch with the lives and concerns of these subsistence farmers. If the peasants are unfortunate enough to believe and listen to this advice, many would starve!
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Sometimes i think the experiences of people in other countries hold up a mirror to our country. How smallholder subsistence farmers have mostly vanished here over time, replaced by more efficient time-averaged multinational corporate industrial monocultures. Most of us would starve without that system, at this point; probably within a month or two.
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That’s a very good point! I really appreciate it when historians and anthropologists have the humility to ask people why they do something. There is usually a really good, well thought out reason behind any tradition that seems odd or counterintuitive to someone from a different culture.
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They’re dealing with people who consider them “peasants". Is this some kind of Robbin Hood era fealty system? They’re probably spreading their plots trying to avoid the tax man.