In the 1800s, old-school farming was characterized by a stark contrast to modern agricultural practices. The majority of farming was done by hand or with the help of basic tools and animals like horses or oxen. Mechanization was limited, and farmers relied heavily on manual labour.

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Crop cultivation during this time involved traditional methods such as crop rotation, where different crops were planted in a sequence to improve soil fertility, and of course in those days the reason for that had nothing to do with the science of soil health and others but simply with the fact that one would like to have something else but beans on one's plate every day. Without realising it though this method of 'Multi-Cropping" the soil was much healthier than the Industrial Soil Use of todays farming...

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Farmers had smaller plots of land, and fields were often ploughed with horse-drawn or hand-operated ploughs. Planting and harvesting were labour-intensive tasks, requiring farmers and their families to work long hours in the fields.

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Fertilizers were used sparingly, if at all, and chemical pesticides were non-existent. Instead, farmers relied on natural pest control methods like crop rotation, trap crops, and manual removal of weeds and pests. 

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Livestock played an important role on farms, providing not only meat, milk, and eggs, but also power for work on the fields through ploughing or pulling carts. I would like to comment to this as well by saying that there was a far more community feeling to these farms where fathers, mothers, sons and daughters and.. yes... also the animals, dogs, cows and sheep included formed a self-providing community on their own, in the most natural environment one can imagine. I dare say if time travel would be an option I wouldn't mind changing my profession right now.

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Overall, farming in the 1800s was a traditional and labour-intensive practice, heavily reliant on human effort and limited technology. It was a time when farmers had a deep connection with the land, relying on age-old knowledge and skills to sustain their livelihoods.

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The point in all of this is that even though we may feel that some of the old-school farming may have been too labour-intensive, when it comes to the health of the soil, the health of the farmer and even our own Mother Earth there shall be no doubt that what we are doinig to the world at this moment has no future. 

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If we do no learn from the MISTAKES from today and reintroduce the accomplishment, success and correct actions from the past we are going towards an unavoidable drama.

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Now then, before I will give it a try to explain how we at Prima Group Asia feel we could and should turn things around, you may want to look at the 1900's first, or else - for those that are convinced already -  you may skip directly to our PM3S pages.