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Agriculture in Pharaonic Egypt since about 8000 years ago

by | 24-09-2016 00:01






Agriculture appeared in Egypt around 6000 BC, where historical studies indicate that the inhabitants of the cities built Meredh
 Salama and Fayoum knew the arts of agriculture in 5500 BC, the Egyptian agriculture linked to the Nile River.
 
The most important crop, planted by the ancient Egyptians are wheat and barley, as the Egyptians cultivated flax and some legumes such as chickpeas, lentils, beans, lupine and many vegetables such as onions, lettuce, garlic Not only so, but only succeeded in planting many fruit such as figs, pomegranates, grapes, palm and papyrus and acacia and lotus and indigo, carob and henna, roses, fenugreek, raspberry, mint, Doom and clover, thyme, jasmine, cinnamon, saffron, cabbage, watermelon, plums, ebony and oak this shows the progress and the importance of agriculture to the ancient Egyptians.

And  reserves the agriculture in Egypt,  by its own style and still a lot of Egyptian customs and traditions practiced in these days ,  due to the severe agricultural groups maintain the ancient past and this is linked to significantly nature of agriculture in the Nile Valley.

Because the flood system making agriculture a special character which renews itself on a regular basis every year from here the farmer found it difficult to change the habits and traditions of the gene and is interested in Egyptians filming agricultural operations on the walls of temples, tombs and can infer the extent of the similarities between the old farming operations and what is happening now.

In ancient Egypt Egyptian farmer invented many of the agricultural machinery and occupied the first place the ax and then  , used the plow drove by animals and this represents a significant shift in farming methods, which contributed to the increase of agricultural production , also used beaters and sickle, weights and wooden shovel.

The ancient Egyptians  they do not have the farmland because it is the sole owner of the King as he controlled  in granting or prevented as he wish ,   Moreover, 
the holder of any agricultural land is not entitled to dispose of either ownership or inheritance.
Egypt is the first country in history cultivation takes place at a certain time have divided the year into  three classes according to the three main sections, namely, (sister) sense of the flood, (Brett) in the sense seeds, (Chemo ) sense harvest.

And we'll talk about agriculture in modern Egypt in another report later.


(this is report have been submitted by helping of website of the Ministry and Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt.)