On Agriculture

Author: (Ancient Rome) M. T. Varro
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Publication Date: 1981-06-01
Features: This book is one of the classical Western agricultural texts and serves as an important source for studying the estate economy of the late Roman Republic. It holds a certain position in the history of economic thought. It records one aspect of the economic life and activities in Italy in the 1st century BC, providing many factual, reliable, and interesting historical details. It helps in understanding the production practices of human society at that time. Of course, it can also be used to compare the production practices of China during the same period. Therefore, whether for the study of ancient Western history or for general economic and agricultural history, this book holds certain reference value. This book is a comprehensive work on agricultural techniques, which was a practical science and technology reading material two thousand years ago. Today, the significance of translating it lies mainly in the documentary and historical materials. It is nearly four hundred years earlier than the earliest major work in China, the "Qimin Yaoshu" by Jia Sixie during the Northern Wei Dynasty. It dates back to the Western Han Dynasty.