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Welcome to our blog, Baby Rafael story plus
and this post, my farm life when I was young
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This is a wheat field about to be harvested, it looks like that it will produce plenty of wheat this season, if the entire field is the same as we see it in this photo.
My farm life when I was young.
Dear readers, this
post is the continuation of our last post, let me tell you my farm life, from my farm life experience and
views, so, here again I am lamenting about my early childhood life in the farm,
which has been one of those facts of life that to most of us could happen
during our life, so whatever I am telling you here is just the story of my life
and nothing else. Now we can also say that no matter how negative a story could
be and there are plenty of negative in my life story, there must be also some
positive things that could be used later in life, when we can; therefore, let
me tell you this other chapter of my life story, the way that I have lived it
and how I see it now.
I believe that to
give you a better picture overall, of what life was like in the farms of my
native town of Genzano di Lucania when I was young, I need also to tell you
about many other things as well and the town itself, and then the ways of how
people used to live in those times and what was happening at the time when I
was young. So, let me talk about the town and the population first.
From my memory, I
believe that the town of Genzano di Lucania early in the twentieth century had
reached a population of about 7,000 inhabitants, in the forties when I was
young the population had grown to about 8,000 and reached 8,389 in 1951
inhabitants, and this is the highest number of people on record that I know of.
Even though some people believe that there were near 10,000 people living in
Genzano. But, today the number of people that used to live in Genzano does not
matter anymore, because in the seventies it had shrunk to only 5,500 inhabitants
or there about. The reasons for this population shrinkage, it was because lots
of people had to emigrate somewhere in those times. The reasons why they had to
emigrate will be fully understood, when I explain what happened to the rural
community of this town including myself. Today at the present time while I am
writing this article the first time, the town of Genzano has 6200 inhabitants
or there about.
My native town of
Genzano is known as Genzano di Lucania to distinguish it from another Italian
town Genzano di Roma. Anyhow this Genzano di Lucania these days has a territory
of about 21,000 Hectares of land if I remember right, and about 80% of this
land is arable land, and it is mostly used to grow wheat, especially durum
wheat; the rest of the land is used to grow grapes vines or olive trees and
other farm produce, and there are also reserves or grazing land; as anyone can
see from what I have said here, this town owes its wealth to the rural
community that produces wheat, because this town is well known to produce lots
of very high quality durum wheat, which the mills that make pasta rush to buy
it when it’s harvest time. Now even if the mills rush to buy this durum wheat,
the price of wheat is not high, so the farmers make only enough money to keep
going and one must think that it takes one year to produce and harvest a crop
of wheat, so it is not that good for the farmers; there are also other things
that must be taken into consideration, as I will continue to explain while I am
writing my life story.
Anyhow as I have
already mentioned above, there are lots of other produce from the farms also,
because we used to have mixed farming, but these produce are used locally, and
if some of them are sold out of the town, they are not a great deal to make any
difference.
At the time when I
was young there were lots of small farms in Genzano, and although the most
important and the largest crop that brought in the money was durum wheat, they
had to practice mixed farming for their own needs, which I will try to explain
how the farms were run at those times when I was young.
I believe that I
have said enough in this post, so, see you next time when I will be writing
about, how the farms were run.
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Baby Rafael story plus
My farm life when I was young
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
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Baby Rafael story plus
My farm life when I was young
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
Next time with, how farms were run
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Some links from same author
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